Word: windedly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...bomb bay was closed. In the purpling east, cumulus clouds bumped heads in a huddle. As Major Woodrow P. Swancutt pushed the throttles all the way forward, a rainbow shone overhead. Dave's Dream gathered speed, then rose slowly into the easterly wind...
...Enola Gay, the B-29 that dropped the atom bomb on Hiroshima, will take off from Kwajalein, 250 miles from Bikini. As it makes three trial runs over the orange-colored U.S.S. Nevada, takes readings of wind drift and adjusts the bomb sights, a loudspeaker will alert the whole area. Ten or more miles from the target, the operational ships will keep up steam in case the wind shifts. Aboard, some 40,000 men will lie down on the decks with their feet toward the blast and their eyes covered against blinding...
...sharp wind roughed up the lake as eight shells pulled away. The Husky crew jumped into an early lead, stayed there until the three-quarters mark. Then Cornell, in the sheltered No.1 lane toward shore, stepped up its beat to 37. Ten powerful strokes pulled the Cornell shell into command; it held the lead against M.I.T.'s finish-line sprint. Washington's Huskies came in third. Wisconsin's heretics also...
...Searching Wind (Hal Wallis-Paramount) is an angry film sermon against appeasement. Skillfully adapted from her own angry Broadway play by Lillian Hellman, the picture is an intelligent and frequently moving job. By Hollywood standards, it is highly courageous : it not only grapples with knotty political issues but it dares to address itself to grownups who can read without working their lips...
...acting honors go to a young newcomer named Douglas Dick. He gives a memorable, hackle-raising performance as the son who eventually loses a leg in a war his diplomat father did nothing to avert. But most of the Wind's virtues and practically all of its faults must be credited to Playwright Hellman, who generally manages to mix propaganda and playwriting pretty deftly. This time her plugging runs away with her plotting: the outsized portion of sermon occasionally preaches more convincingly than it plays...