Word: windedly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...spoke about providing him with a camera, government security officers cracked down. Staples was dismissed as a security risk, and an official protest was made to the Soviet ambassador, who bounced Secretary Popov back to Moscow. That would have closed the case except that the press got belated wind of it last week and heavily criticized the government for its failure to warn the public. The criticism did not seem to ruffle Prime Minister Louis St. Laurent. "Every coun try has a spy system," said St. Laurent complacently. "What happened here was not worth making an international incident about...
...Duffy whistles the men together. "You were logy," he says quietly. "I don't know why-maybe it's the weather. Now we're going to run you, because that's the only way you'll stay in shape. Let's take some wind sprints...
...offers were first made for a site for this new college: one was a wind-swept hill on the Somerville farm of Charles Tufts, the other on the Franklin, Mass. farm of Oliver Dean. When Dean's offer was turned down, he established Dean Academy instead, intended as a preparatory school for Tufts College...
Other ships looked like black bugs under the blazing desert sun. Alongside, white, shimmering sand on the rock-filled banks slipped silently by. Cars and trucks sped by occasionally on the canal highway. Beyond, in the rolling desert, djinns of dust spun with the wind. Occasionally we saw a camouflaged gun position, a snorting dredge, a rowboat with a fisherman and his son watching their nets...
...these, though he is habitually massive-browed and troubled. ("Yet happiness eludes my sad, my tortured soul.") In one of the most delightful scenes, his minister, Prince Shuisky, guilefully played by N. Khanayev, reports that the pretender's forces are nearing Moscow. Catching the drift of the wind. Boris remarks that there is no pretender, the pretender Dmitri is the sovereign, "and Shuisky for perjury shall be quartered...