Word: windedly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Then he left hurriedly for the trip back to Rio and the Missouri, where he was scheduled to receive 500 delegates and Brazilian notables for luncheon. In the harbor, the fog had closed down and a cold wind was blowing. Many of Brazil's gayest hats were bedraggled by the time the guests managed to jump from bobbing launches to the Missouri's gangway. Brazilians visibly regretted the lack of wine, but consoled themselves with huge amounts of American coffee...
...pressure. Sometimes, he found, the line was almost straight. Then a "microbarographic storm" would sweep across St. Louis. For hours or even days, the line would jump up and down in jagged peaks and valleys. The mysterious little waves seemed to have no immediate connection with weather changes, wind velocity or anything else perceptible...
Pavements were rippling like thin ice on a pond. Steel and stone buildings trembled in a portentous wind. The sky sizzled as though tons of bacon were frying in an apocalyptic pan. "Obviously, men," gasped the Professor, "the Katz-Alpha-Ogallala nebula is approaching the earth at terrific speed, just as I predicted. We have not a moment to lose." The atom-powered space ship was ready and waiting in Joe's Parkview Garage, and off they zoomed to safety on the planet Mars, where there are marvels enough to fill a year's issues of Flabbergasting Stories...
...Time for Vacation. With this week's broadcast in London, Gracie will wind up the live half of the series (the Other six shows have been transcribed). For the future, she would like a "long-vacation" (either at her Santa Monica estate or at her Capri villa). But she's reluctant to mention a rest: even Lancashire would take a dim view of anyone lolling nowadays, when all Britain is supposed to be working harder...
...Consolidated sardines-America's delight," etc.) which could never be too broad for its model. A dullard on a quiz program racks her brains for the name of the Father of His Country. Some soap-opera actors fight out a love crisis ("We are but straws in the wind," the unfaithful husband explains to his wife), their faces embattled in the schizoid struggle between sincerity and nausea which is one of the occupational diseases of soap-opera acting...