Word: windedly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...WIND'S Winner...
Again it was sheer murder. Columbia, with weatherbeaten Briggs Cunningham at the helm, raced to a 600-yard lead on the first six-mile windward leg of the 24-mile course. Cunningham increased the advantage with brilliant sailing both into the wind and with colorful spinnaker runs...
...Glasgow, he dashed off doggerel for the weeklies, and burned with an adventurer's ambition to make a million dollars, write 1,000 poems, and live for a century. In hot pursuit of these ends, he hopped a freighter to Canada in 1895, a ruddy-faced, guitar-playing, wind-drifted 21-year-old fiddle-foot with a Scottish burr. He worked anywhere, at anything-swilling swine in British Columbia, tending roses...
...this basic design Stephens added the lightest equipment money could buy, e.g., an extruded aluminum mast, was thereby able to put the boat's weight where it would do the most good: a 20-ton keel to keep Columbia from heeling excessively under a stiff wind. So carefully did Precisionist Stephens figure his boat's total weight that he even weighed the paper drinking cups and the Tollhouse cookies that went aboard. He added sails for every kind of weather-four mainsails, twelve jibs, eight spinnakers. When he was done, the Columbia's syndicate, headed by Financier...
...Wind Across the Everglades (Schulberg; Warner) is for the birds. Pretty birds they are, too-snowy egrets, white heron, roseate spoonbills-whether cawing squeakily in their fledgling nests or soaring through a dusky Florida sky. But Author-Co-Producer Budd (On the Waterfront) Schulberg should have heeded the advice usually given to acrophobes rather than bird watchers-never look down. Schulberg does look down, and he and his movie take a terrible tumble...