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Word: windedly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...large portion of the credit for this Crimson victory must go, unfortunately, to the adverse weather which prevailed throughout the game. A high wind was blowing at most times and the temperature was a wintry 40 degrees. B.C. pitcher George Giersch, perhaps the finest hurler in the Greater Boston League is primarily a slow ball, control pitcher, and he just could not keep the fine edge on his pitches under such conditions...

Author: By Frederick W. Byron jr., | Title: Crimson Nine Trounces B.C., 9-1; Wadsworth Gives Up Only 4 Hits | 4/29/1959 | See Source »

...Aided by a 12-m.p.h. wind that made his effort unofficial, Abilene Christian's Bill Woodhouse, 21, did the 100-yd. dash in 9.1 sec., became the third man to reach such a clocking. The others: ex-Southern California Star Mel Patton, and Bobby Morrow, a former Woodhouse teammate at Abilene Christian...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Scoreboard, Apr. 27, 1959 | 4/27/1959 | See Source »

...shooting the dogs, the terror of being dragged off the ice by vicious 1,100-Ib. sea leopards that could leap from the water and catch a running man. The expedition physicist scrawled in his tattered diary: "A bug on a single molecule of oxygen in a gale of wind would have about the same chance of predicting where he was likely to finish...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Hero on the Ice | 4/27/1959 | See Source »

...hefty wind blew in from left field during the contest, holding up several balls at the base of the fence and keeping the score down considerably...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Army Nine Edges Crimson, 4-3; Two Late Errors Lead to Loss | 4/27/1959 | See Source »

Just then a gust of wind lifted the straw hat from Jessie's head and blew it through the air until it landed among a congregation of floating ducks. "Boy oh boy!" said Georgie. "Will it sink...

Author: By Alice P. Albright, | Title: The Swan's Song | 4/25/1959 | See Source »

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