Word: windedly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...were still being tended and revered in a small park (not far from a more recent Jap-built air-raid shelter). In recent centuries a permanent male population had been established on the island, but women still outnumbered the men. The old native description of the island-"Too much wind, too much rock, too much woman"-still applied, though a male revolution was on the march...
TIME Correspondent Donald Newton arrived a half hour early, and took up his stand before a restaurant on the square, the Taverna Carioca. A hot wind, the kind cariocas call a suicide wind, blew down from the mountains and put everyone on edge. In the crowded square hundreds were lined up to catch streetcars home. The cops were there already...
...candidate for the Bachelor of Arts degree; a student without this requirement receives a Bachelor of Sciences, whatever his field of concentration. For this reason, men working in Romance Languages or History and Literature may receive the Science degree, while those graduating in Physics or Chemistry may wind up with a Bachelor of Arts...
When British heavyweights climb into a ring with U.S. heavyweights, they usually wind up on the floor. Two more ended up that, way last week, on different sides of the Atlantic. The news was that they looked good before they looked...
...four years, into a festering blister, outlined by bile-green and pale yellow rings, exuding small drops of a yellow, poisonous fluid. Wherever this poison touches the bark, black or dark red scars appear. The following year these scars develop into new, white blisters, crammed with spores which the wind carries away for further propagation. The canker grows until the branch, and eventually the tree, sickens and dies...