Word: windedly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...parties, including ambassadors attending the concurrent meeting of the Organization of American States. President Eisen hower very likely will stay at the spacious hilltop U.S. embassy residence near by, and other Presidents might also prefer their own embassies, technically native soil. But advisers, minor officials and many newsmen may wind up billeted at U.S. military posts in the Canal Zone...
...days and nights the loudspeaker blared its message in Swahili, but its only answer was the rustle of the forest and the sounds of the beasts. Finally, the Rev. William Wellesley Devitt and his nine native companions picked up their gear and returned to Kijabe (Place of the Wind), where a cluster of grey stone buildings clings to a cliff 7,000 ft. above the valley...
...taxpayers got a look last week at the gigantic new wind tunnel (cost: $33 million) at the propulsion laboratory of the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics at Cleveland. It has been abuilding since 1952, and so far as the Western world knows, it is the most powerful in operation. Engines up to 5 ft. in diameter can be tested in its 10 ft.-by-10 ft. throat, fed with air rushing past at Mach 3.5 (1,800 m.p.h.). To move so much air at this speed requires monstrous fans that soak...
...world of Communism stirred under the wind of change. Every day the world saw some new Soviet gesture. The most dramatic last week was Russia's announcement of a sizable cutback in its armed forces. Added to that, hardly a day passed without some new witticism from Nikita Khrushchev, some new revision of history, some political prisoner rehabilitated, some old scoundrel exposed. Every gesture may yet prove a fraud, or the Kremlin's masters-finding that small concessions lead to wider demands-may try to take it all back and revert to proved severities...
...Charging into a mild (3 m.p.h.) head wind, Duke's fleet-footed, redheaded Blue Devil, David Sime (TIME, May 21), ran the 100-yd. dash in a world-record-tying 0:09.3 at the Carolina A.A.U. meet in Raleigh...