Word: windedly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...five or six models which are called, because they may prove to be disasters, the "Trafalgars"-the dresses which are the most extreme and will make headlines or covers in the fashion magazines. Dior deliberately plans them to startle and shock, thinks of them as trial straws in the wind, to be developed if the wind is favorable next season. Being a good businessman as well as couture's best showman, Dior is always careful to include also soundly designed dresses in more conservative, bread-and-butter styles...
...this was no bellywhopping slide over a gentle snow-covered slope. On his beefed-up steel "skeleton," Bibbia was running down the ice-slick Cresta sled run. His objective: a descent fast enough to win him the Cresta sledders' Carder Cup. Face low in the biting wind, his nose scant inches from the ice, Bibbia scudded into Curzon, the first turn on the twisting chute. The special, spike-toed Cresta shoes that were his only brakes were clear of the glass-hard groove as he slid along, and by the time he hit the straightaway at Junction, dropping...
...Sunday. Dec. 28. 1879. the 13 central spans (the "High Girders") of the Tay Bridge broke under a wind of hurricane force and fell into the stormy estuary; with them fell a train carrying 75 men, women and children. There were no survivors. For weeks afterwards divers groped about the muddy estuary recovering pieces of railway hardware and bodies. Tay fishermen dragged the river bed for more bodies. The victims were neatly laid out in the station waiting room, and dour Dundee turned out eagerly to watch the funereal spectacle. British Novelist-Newspaperman John Prebble has told the story...
Along the rest of "Motor Mile" on Commonwealth Avenue, all the other brands were celebrating Washington's birthday. Chevrolet dealers wore red boutonnieres and were offering a television set as a prize to some lucky customer. Plymouth featured an impressive lineup of pushbutton drive, oriflow shock absorbers, and wind tunnel tested air fins. Perhaps not first in war or first in peace, it claimed to be first in the low-priced three...
...each the count's surrogate offers what love he can; from each he gleans a peculiar sense of life's purpose. When the real count gets wind of an inheritance windfall and returns to claim it, the stage is set for a showdown that is also something of a letdown. Author Du Maurier stuffs her novel with eccentric servants, eavesdroppers, potential murders, apparent suicides, strangely worded wills. For a romantic setting there is the 17th century chateau of St. Gilles, not unlike Daphne Du Maurier's own sprawling, 70-room Menabilly House on the Cornish coast, great...