Word: windedly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...cost 1.65 pesos, the stall-keeper glibly blames la situation Rusa or la inundation de Florida. Unconvinced that the Russians or the Florida hurricane has any connection, the housewife calls for witnesses to behold how she is being robbed; she may shout the top-drawer insult hambreador (hunger-maker), wind up with a call for el paredón (wall used as a backstop for firing squads...
Most of Charles Morgan's novels (The Fountain, Sparkenbroke, The Voyage) start out with a fair wind but eventually become becalmed on a sea of pretentious ideas. In The Judge's Story, Morgan shunts his characters around to illustrate a problem which is too big for them, and too big for his novel: ". . . The problem . . . of how, in the modern world, to remain civilized and free...
...Sing" and then wafted up the aisles of the Stadium. The semicircle formation used to offset the alphabetical parade down the field is an original idea and "Wintergreen" when first heard was considered a daring innovation. People weren't sure whether concert-type arrangements should be introduced on a wind-blown field, to compete with earmuffs and razzberries but "Wintergreen" was well-constructed and came through nicely...
...Wind From Washington...
Last fall, Dr. Butler got wind of a similar project-now in its second year at the University of Washington. It seems that the Children's Bureau of the U. S. Federal Security Administration was looking for data on the problems of child health care and found the veteran student community the ideal place to get it. Dr. Butler convinced them that Harvard was an ideal place...