Word: windedly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Using the traditional English stroke with its long layback, a favored Cambridge crew led Oxford and its American-style oarsmen all the way along the 4-mile-374-yd. course on the rain-and-wind-roiled Thames and won by 3½ lengths...
...Wind Bag? Bartley would return to President Eliot's "minimum" faith of "love and service to one's neighbor" and war against "the evils which afflict humanity." These tenets he would buttress with President Emeritus James B. Conant's basic answer to the challenge of the Soviet or fascist view of life-a faith in a "wide diversity of beliefs and the tolerance of this diversity...
...town of Woodward (pop. 8,000) in the heart of northwest Oklahoma's wheat country is a quiet kind of place, typical of farming regions where elbowroom, sunshine and plenty of fresh air are as free as the wind in the fields. There, last week, Robert Smith, 12, and his brother David, 10, got home from Sunday school at the United Brethren Church, ate their lunch and set out together for the movies. On the way, Robert broke into a local surplus supply store, stole four .22-cal. pistols...
...kept her furnace going by burning all her firewood, then the extension leaves from her dining-room and kitchen tables then her cat's wooden house. Police guarding the Hudson River's George Washington Bridge turned back convertibles, fear ful that jagged chunks of ice, torn by wind from the girders and cables far overhead, might crash through the fabric roofs...
...across and weighing 25 tons, is dramatically suspended in midair and open to the sky above the central pool. To give the structure the maximum look of lightness, a trellis of light steel straps was used to hold the 42-ft.-high plastic walls rigid against the wind. Says Stone: "I'm not given to flexing my structural muscles publicly. But you can't say this building doesn't shout with steel. Why, you can almost hear those cables, and you can see every damned member...