Word: windedly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...stake boats on the Severn for their first competitive trial last week, for a few breathtaking moments the Admirals seemed to have found their old skill. Swinging into a high, 45-beat stroke, they slid into an early lead. But stamina was lacking; over the long pull, their wind was not equal to the job. They gasped through their finishing sprint, unable to stay with Princeton's well-conditioned undergraduates. They finished second by three lengths, but well ahead of Navy's own varsity. Coach Callow was far from disappointed. Said he: "The Admirals were terrific. They...
This week SP's last chance became a hot possibility. It is already dickering to sell out to a billion-dollar corporation, hopes to wind up the deal in a few weeks...
...novelists are getting their second wind. In two months, half a dozen or so tales of combat action have seen print. The latest, a German entry titled The Cross of Iron, is the most savagely powerful portraiture of men at war on the eastern front since Theodor Plievier's Stalingrad. Possibly because they belonged to the winning side, U.S. writers tend to see war as a personality-developing experience in which a man can forge his own identity. As a loser, the German writer must salvage for his hero both identity and meaning from a lost cause pursued beyond...
Despite the rain and the wind, the varsity golf team rose to the occasion, downing Rutgers yesterday at New Brunswick, 6 to 1, in its first match of the season...
...about premature reporting. "Newspapers latch on to a morsel of partly cooked medical news and serve it up to the reading public in its raw state. Your new 'cancer cure' may be simply a study of enzymatic action on malignant cells until the eager-beaver writer gets wind of it. By the time he tries to present you to the readers as a latter-day Pasteur, your medical society is ready to drum you out as a snake oil salesman...