Word: windedly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Over Jupiter Island, north of Palm Beach on Florida's east coast, a stiff wind was blowing. It rattled the palm trees with a sound like distant machine guns, piled huge stacks of cumulus clouds in front of the sun. From the sea, a salty film of spindrift swept over the cluster of snug beach houses. In one of them last week, sitting intently by his radio, Under Secretary of State Robert Abercrombie Lovett listened to the President's undramatic announcement of a dramatic new turn in U.S. foreign policy...
...little farming town of Fosterburg (pop. 250), Ill., had only half an hour's warning. Just after 6 o'clock in the morning, sunlight turned a sickly yellow and a warm wind blew. Then darkness fell] rain poured down in torrents, and a roar "like ten express trains" filled the sky. A Mrs. May Dingerson opened her,back door to investigate the awful noise. The door flew away. Then her front door flew open and all the windows burst. She felt as if her ears were full of water. Then everything went black. She woke, bleeding...
...wind stripped the clothes from scores; one man roused from unconsciousness, found he was wearing nothing but his belt and the pockets of his pants. People were blown bodily through the littered air. In three minutes, ten people were killed and all but four of Fosterburg's 80 houses and stores were reduced to debris...
...glanced disgustedly at the grubby book, which was fresh from the shelves of Widener. The book had a certain amount of presumption, he thought, in claiming to be able to explain anything to him Especially when a soft wind was bending the grass down before it and the stores on Mass. Ave were showing bright Spring ties in their windows. Vag got up slowly, realizing that the grass was damper than he had thought. He fingered his book, overcame an impulse to hurl it into the Charles, and started back across the Drive. You could throw a lot of bull...
Like Richard Hughes's famed A High Wind in Jamaica, Miss Barker's Innocents takes the mental world of children with unsentimental seriousness. Storyteller Barker works surely from within the child's range of comprehension, accurately describes the forging of a child's protective armor...