Word: windedly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Author of more than a dozen Broadway plays since 1926, Behrman is currently represented on the New York stage by The Cold Wind and the Warm, starring Eli Wallach and Maureen Stapleton. The work is a dramatization of several of the author's contributions to The New Yorker magazine. They were later published in book form as The Worcester Account...
...Other Americans United for Separation of Church and State. P.O.A.U. has been increasingly uneasy about what it views as an excessive growth of Roman Catholic influence in the armed forces (and elsewhere), specifically in the promotion of chaplains. But P.O.A.U.'s uneasiness mounted to anxiety when it caught wind of what seemed to its officials a movement to dedicate the U.S. Army to Catholic patron saints...
...space probe can gather much valuable information without landing on the moon or a planet. A picture of the back of the moon is one of the easiest prizes. Interplanetary space is by no means empty. It contains a very thin gas of unknown composition, and through it a "wind" of high-speed particles blows outward from the sun. This wind may be dangerous; it should be studied carefully before manned ships are launched deeply into space...
...picked NBC's Gunsmoke as his target, he says, "because it is a tremendously solid show. The characters are sharply defined. It is easier to spoof a good western. A bad western doesn't have anything to get your hands on." Ungrateful Gunsmoke producers, when they got wind of the forthcoming parody, promptly inserted in their show an episode about a lying, cheating heavy named Huggins. Maverick's producer: Roy Huggins...
Stoking up on lamb chops for breakfast and steak whenever they could get it, the Russians never stopped training, practiced incessantly, and when they could not get on the ice. trotted off to the local park for a wind-building game of soccer. In action, the Russians showed the results of such training by their ability to reach breakaway speed in three strides and a nimble-footed skill in passing the puck with a sidewise flick of their skates...