Word: windedly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Karachi last week U.S. Vice President Nixon bluntly warned that any country that takes Soviet economic aid on the supposition that it is without strings is likely to wind up with "a rope tied around its neck." But he went on to declare that U.S. aid to such countries might help them maintain their independence of Russia. A Pakistani official translated it this way to New York Times Correspondent Abe Rosenthal: "Mr. Nixon says Soviet aid will make you a satellite. Then he says we will keep on giving you money if you take aid from the Russians...
...party cell at Paris' Lycée Voltaire, for example, continued to welcome former L'Humanité Editor Pierre Hervé, though he had been kicked out of the party for criticizing its subservience to Russia. Would the party be forced to bend with the prevailing wind...
...London confab with newshawks, Actress Vivien (Gone With the Wind) Leigh, 42, mother of a 22-year-old daughter and wife (for 16 years) of Sir Laurence Olivier, put down gossip that she will again be a mamma by labeling it the truth. Said she: "The baby is due on Dec. 22. If a girl, she'll be called Katherine. We haven't bothered thinking of a boy's name...
Atomic Headache. As a result of such scaremongering, thousands of suggestible Germans have come down with "atomic headache." The head of the Bavarian State Health Authority complained: "All the misfortune that Bavarians formerly ascribed to the Fohn (a hot Alpine wind) has now turned into the atomic head ache." The Bavarian Minister of the Interior tried to convince complaining farmers that the yellowing of their pastures had nothing to do with atomic rain. In Salzburg cafe waiters warned departing guests not to go without hats for fear of atomic rain...
...long a human being can survive without water varies so much with conditions that doctors recognize no records. In Death Valley, with a hot, drying wind and no shade, survival might well be less than 48- hours. Jean Margetts' case, record or no, was a striking example of the human organism's innate will to live...