Word: windedly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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With accompanying gusts of self-congratulation, Chicago's high-velocity radio station WIND was noisily blowing good toward an unaccustomed quadrant-the city's high schools. Teen-agers got a daily earful of such airborne blasts as: "Want to hear about a contest that's fantabulous? Then, guys and gals, listen! Just write, in 50 words or less, a statement saying 'I am going back to school because.' Enter today-that sawbuck will look pretty sharp in your pocketbook! The grand prize winner will win $100 in loot. Take part in all these kicks!" Sample...
...Newport's Brenton Reef Lightship last week, wind and fog exacted taut performances from the 12-meter U.S. yachts in the second series of trials for the role of defender in September's battle for the America's Cup. But while Sceptre, the British challenger, nimbly outran its own trial horse (a U.S. 12-meter named Gleam), the U.S. contenders knocked one another off in a bewildering series of form reversals. At week's end only Easterner looked a loser. Still in the running: Skipper Briggs Cunningham's Columbia, Arthur Knapp Jr.'s Weatherly...
...opening gun. But many experts still like Columbia, and 51-year-old Skipper Cunningham, with an eye toward the bad weather that often roils New England waters in late September, feels that "heavy weather is Columbia's long suit." He admits his yacht is weakest with the wind astern but adds, "she's a bear cat to windward." And the saying goes that if a boat can go to windward better than the others, she does not have to do anything else. When polled, six experts who have seen all the races had some interesting observations...
Worn by themselves, tights demand a near perfect figure. Lacking that, many a lass who tries to look like Peter Pan may wind up, alas, looking more like Sir Laurence Olivier playing Henry...
...renewal to gutter out. In Anabasis (1924), his best-known work, partly thanks to an excellent translation by T.S. Eliot, Perse tells of the seedtime of history. Man, the nomad, ranges out over the deserts of the East, "Ploughland of dream." He raises and then razes a city. In Winds (1946), great storms sweep across Europe, "leaving us in their wake, Men of straw in the year of straw." The restless hero finds himself in the West as Perse conjures up the discovery and dynamism of America-"the great expresses . . . with their supply of ice for five days .. . running against...