Word: windedly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...into the ship's hull and stove in its own nose. For seven hours, the cutter could do little but stand by as close as Captain Cronk dared, and make a lee as the plane's crew nervously jockeyed the Sky Queen's nose into the wind...
...nation's top football teams, Michigan emerged from last week's scrimmaging soundest in wind & limb. In fact, it looked as if Coach Fritz Crisler's men could get a better battle by playing their own second team than they could from anyone they had faced so far. The Michiganders embarrassed poor Pittsburgh, 69 to 0. In its first three games, Michigan has scored 173 points to 13 for its opponents...
Shahn's realism is apt to falter when he tries to reproduce a tree in the wind or the curve of a hill. "That part doesn't interest me so much," he says. "God can do what He likes, but man is more surprising...
...with a Bang. Human bodies can stand this alarming torment. But now comes the problem of getting out of the cockpit. "Climb out and jump?" Baldwin asks. "Try it in a plane making 600 miles an hour. . . . You can't move; the wind plasters you into your seat. ... So what...
...from the madding crowd," the Varsity cross country runner asks for and gets little glory. He spends the fall afternoons chasing wind-swept leaves along some deserted woodland path, over hill and dale...