Word: windedly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...wind was from the West, where Vidali was, Tito, like Tresca, might be able to "smell the stink of death...
...brilliant beams," he wrote to an aunt in 1816, in a letter just found tucked away in the floor of an old Concord, Mass. house. "This I suppose is the time to feel inspired and this the time I shall improve to write to you." He finally had to wind it up, because "night with sable wings approaches and compels me to bid adieu." He was 13 at the time...
That left Claxton to do the honors, and he had an unhappy time. In mid-speech, a gust of wind ripped away the sheet that veiled the plaque, wrapped it around the master of ceremonies. After this diversion, Claxton ran afoul of a rain squall that sent most of his audience scurrying. He still had five minutes to go, and he went right on talking...
Windy City. In Chicago, policemen who helped fish 96-lb. Harry Goldman from the river asked him why he had jumped, got a straight answer: "I didn't jump, the wind blew...
Fifty Days. On Friday the 13th, Berlin had weathered 50 days of siege. The stormiest wind and rain of the year whipped through the ruined city. Nevertheless, on that day the West's cargo planes flew in more than 2,000 tons.* At Tempelhof, a C-54 winged in & out of the overcast with a load of coal, overshot the field, crashed a fence, burst into flame. The two U.S. flyers got out safely through an emergency hatch-leaving the airlift's death toll still at five...