Word: windedly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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There were plenty of questions-among them: Did the timing of the General Motors suit indicate an attempt to take the wind out of the Democratic election year charges that "this is a big-business administration?" Brownell's reply: "I don't believe that deserves an answer, because everybody knows we've been studying this problem for some months." But the big questions did not come until after the show. Brownell had not held a Washington press conference since October. Why, asked a reporter, had he saved his major news announcement for release on a commercially sponsored...
Arizona (16): Split 7 for Stevenson, 5 for Averell Harriman, the rest undecided; the delegation (which will vote as a unit) will probably go to Favorite Son Ernest McFarland on the first ballot, then switch with the wind...
Ohio (58): 54 pledged to Governor Frank Lausche, 4 for anyone except Lausche; majority expected to shift quickly with the wind...
With most of his program gone with the Baton Rouge wind, Earl Long was still ready and willing to play with fire to get his way: if his timber tax bill failed to pass, he warned, he might veto a measure appropriating funds for fire fighting in Louisiana's vast forests...
...eerie, with the moon not shining but giving just enough light to see. The sea was pretty big, and I said, 'This looks like the worst squall yet.' Then we had almost complete calm, a momentary clearing of the sky-and then torrential rain. Without warning, the wind bounced us like a ball and the compass went to 180° and finally 220°. We gradually pulled up until we were actually sailing away from Bermuda." All around Finisterre, the same thing was happening to other competitors, and canvas was popping on most boats. Finisterre...