Word: windedly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...took pen in hand last week to protest the Navy's plan to expose a group of dogs and goats in the forthcoming tests at Bikini Atoll. A few jittery West Coast housewives made inquiries as to the possibility of the Bikini blast setting up 1) a high wind, 2) a tidal wave, 3) an earthquake. But almost nobody in the country seemed concerned about the chances of the world being atomized later...
...Russia. Perón barely led in the election returns when Buenos Aires' keen-nosed Communists joined Perónist unions in a paralyzing strike against packing plants, most of them U.S.-and British-owned. A Russian trade delegation was on its way to Buenos Aires. The next wind to sweep north might bring with it news of the first Russian ambassador in B.A. since the Bolshevik revolution...
...millers, who had once taken so much pride in their patterns, were unwilling to clothe low-grade flour in the same finery, he had started the trouble. And the prospects were devastating. The Pillsbury Flour Co.'s Dallas manager sighed: "They used to say that when the wind blew across the South you could see our trade name on all the girls' underpants. Now they'll all read EMERGENCY...
Bevin meant both statements. Yet they could be in apparent conflict if the Russians chose to press upon the internally weakened Empire. As Bevin spoke, the Empire was creaking in a high wind-and its troubles had a direct connection with Russian pressures. Prime Minister Clement Attlee told Parliament that "leftwing elements and Communists" had fanned the Bombay mutiny. Whether they had or not, Russia's championship of dependent peoples at UNO had obviously aggravated widespread colonial unrest...
...engineering, there are proved principles which have lain dormant for years because their use required too much calculation. Example: aircraft designers know how to predict air-drag theoretically, but the job takes so much figuring that they prefer to make scale models and test them-somewhat inaccurately-in expensive wind tunnels. In future, they may rely on eniac...