Word: windedly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...their last weapon: 62 drums of gammexane, a sort of new DDT, flown in from England for its first big-scale test. If this failed, nothing would stop the scourge save a miracle such as that related in Exodus 10:19: "And the Lord turned a mighty strong west wind, which took away the locusts, and cast them into...
France's left-wing leaders trimmed their sails to the prevailing wind. The Communists came about with their usual adroitness. They dropped the "Thorez to Power!" slogan, issued a manifesto with the new line: "Republican unity at all costs!" Wrote Socialist Secretary General Daniel Mayer in the Party organ, Le Populaire: "The Socialist Party is ready once again to strive for conciliation of all Republicans...
Viscountess Alexander, wife of Canada's new Governor General, struck a blow for imperial clubbiness at the Royal Ottawa Golf Club. Her Ladyship teed off at the 146-yard sixth hole into a stiff wind, dropped a hole-in-one-the first of the club season and the first in her life...
When Belgium was freed, he was one of the first back. As Finance Minister he put through the unpopular but very successful decrees which took the wind out of Belgium's inflation (TIME, Nov. 6, 1944) and started the nation on the road to recovery months ahead of any other European country...
Although the 2000 meter course is a short wind sprint compared to the annual four mile pre-war Poughkeepsie Regatta, it has been heralded as the big event of the crew season inasmuch as the Hudson River outing will not be held this year...