Word: windedly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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With enough tail wind to lend a hand but not enough to materially ruffle the waters of the Basin, Coolidge jumped into an early lead which was never seriously challenged. He finished with an estimated four and one-half lengths of open water between himself and his nearest rival...
Taking advantage of his powerful first serve, which gave Dell a good deal of trouble all afternoon, the Crimson captain took the opening set, 6-1. Dell came back to win the second, but behind 3-1 in the deciding set, Junta found his second wind and determinedly won the next five games to take the match...
...world's official aerial speed record by nearly 200 m.p.h.' Previous official record, flown last December over the same measured course by an Air Force F-104A McDonnell Voodoo: 1,207.6 m.p.h. Official time for Irwin's operational Starfighter,* figured by averaging one pass with the wind and one against it: 1,404.19 m.p.h., more than twice the speed of sound...
...million, or a total of 5% of the budget. This will keep most of the flagelados alive until December. If the drought follows its historic pattern, the first crops will then begin to bloom; the refugees will trek back and enjoy a few fat years until the hot, dry wind starts up again...
...Mondrian, and concluded: "Your rectangles should vibrate and oscillate." Then he rushed to his cluttered studio and went to work. When Painter Marcel (Nude Descending a Staircase) Duchamp saw the results -brightly colored compositions of sheet metal, wire, steel rods and wood, moving by use of motors, pulleys or wind -he dubbed them "mobiles." Sculptor Jean Arp reacted by calling the nonmoving sculptures "stabiles." Thus were created two of the best-known terms of modern sculpture...