Word: windedly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week, after Dr. Blalock had done 65 such operations, he suddenly found himself a hero in the press. Reporters had got wind of the fact that he had saved 80% of his "doomed" patients. All over the U.S., people read about curly-headed Judy Hackman, the Seattle two-year-old who was operated on last fortnight. They read of other blue babies in Maine, Virginia and Indiana, being prepared for a trip to Baltimore by hopeful parents...
...crisp, 20-knot wind was blowing over Fort Lauderdale, Fla., and the sun was shining brilliantly when Lieut. Charles C. Taylor led his flight of five Navy torpedo bombers out over the Atlantic. To Instructor Taylor, combat-wise veteran of vast Pacific Ocean spaces, the routine navigation problem was simple. That was the last seen...
With Amaterasu, the Sun Goddess, with bearded Jimmu Tenno (Emperor of Divine Valor), with the 14,000 kami (gods) of wind and mountain and sea, Lieut. William K. Bunce, U.S.N.R., wrestled for three months. Then the tall, slight, 38-year-old former dean of Otterbein College (Westerville, Ohio), for three years a teacher in Japan, produced a directive reshaping the relationship of 77,000,000 Japanese to the Shinto faith. Last week, with not even a penciled change by Allied headquarters, Shinto according to Bunce was promulgated in Tokyo...
Father and mother lived on in Berlin after Allied troops arrived. As winter approached, Karl cut wood and his wife cleaned bricks. Their one room on Dan-zigerstrasse had no windowpanes. One morning last week, as freezing winds and snow swept Berlin, the Neumanns could not force themselves to get out of their bed, though it had only one thin eider down for cover. That night the wind tore loose the cardboard over the window; snow drifted in at the foot of the bed. Next morning the Neumanns, paralyzed with cold, could not move. After another day and night they...
Died. The Most Rev. and Rt. Hon. Cosmo Gordon Lang, 81, retired (in 1942) Archbishop of Canterbury, who helped raise the wind that blew Edward VIII from his throne ; in Richmond, England...