Word: windedly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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There are no electrical controls which could be operated from a warm roow below. As the epileptic Russian had insisted, the ringer must stand among his bells and communicate with them directly by chains, regardless of the Cambridge weather or the wind, in the open cupola...
...perilous moments. When Viola first sees Duke Orsino whom she is to wed, she rips off her unfeminine cloak and, radiant in something like a strapless evening gown, exclaims (in Russian), "I'll serve him." The next shot shows the duke, his fair hair rippling in the wind, gazing like a bowsprit at the horizon...
...retiring commander of U.S. troops in Europe, General Anthony C. ("Nuts!") McAuliffe, 57, due to wind up his 38-year military career at May's end, winged in from London to New York's International Airport. A jaunty figure in mufti, Tony McAuliffe discounted chances of all-out nuclear war but foresaw a possibility of small "brush wars" involving tactical atomic weapons. Said he: "We'd be suckers if we attempted to fight the Russians with only conventional weapons." What about McAuliffe's fellow cadet at West Point, New York-born General (ret.) Mark W. Clark...
After several Moscow appearances, he will play in five other Russian cities, wind up with the Moscow Symphony at the end of the month...
...Bible, both Luke and Matthew are agreed that if the blind lead the blind, both will wind up in the ditch.† In The Fourth World, Novelist Daphne Athas does more than underwrite the common sense of the Gospels. She digs a fictional ditch big enough to hold both the sighted and the sightless, and the world into which she leads the reader would seem simply nightmarish if it did not also ring simply true...