Word: windedly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Rising Wind. The best Iran's Gavam could do was to bend with the rising Soviet wind. The increased Tudeh representation in his Cabinet (which includes Dr. Morteza Yaz di, a wealthy Soviet sympathizer) got the posts of Commerce & Industry, Education and Health, but not the key posts of War, Foreign Affairs (Gavam) and Justice. To counter Tudeh agitation the British moved some troops up to Basra, close to the Abadan flashpoint...
Hard Blow. In Windsor, Ont., a tornado half wrecked George Mekita's home, whisked away a policy against wind damage...
...Second Wind. In the absence of their star witness, the Senators were having a field day with the Army, and particularly C.W.S.'s General Waitt. This week Comptroller General Lindsay Warren gave them their second wind. In a blast at the War Department, he named three officers who had stepped out of uniform and into fat jobs with the same companies for which they had just drafted contract termination agreements. Said he: cost-plus procurement "is the greatest device ever invented for pumping the Treasury...
...softball circuit, Leverett wound up its schedule assured of first place, with a won and lost record of 5 and 0. Under the astute management of "Swede" Cook, the Bunnies combined heavy hitting and tight infield play with good pitching to wind up an undefeated season...
...Searching Wind. Robert Young and Sylvia Sidney in Lillian Hellman's angry film sermon against umbrella-carrying diplomats (TIME, July...