Word: windedly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Press Secretary James Hagerty-the President drove himself hard, despite the fact that he was only 15 days away from his stroke. Just 45 minutes from Paris the Columbine got a message from U.S. officials that Paris was cold, with a 36° temperature and a cutting wind. Should the welcoming ceremonies at Orly airport be moved inside? Replied Eisenhower: negative...
...Drew pushed his F-ioiA twin-jet McDonnell Voodoo to full throttle and full afterburner, broke the world's official aerial speed record. Previous record, flown in March 1956 by a British Fairey Delta: ,132 m.p.h. Drew's official time, an average of one pass into the wind and one ass with it: 1,207.6 m.p.h...
After agreement on new rules and trades, the baseballers sat down to talk some more, and the illusion of interleague cooperation collapsed. Everything fell apart into familiar argument when the minors got wind of a big-league deal for network television of Sunday games. Screaming that Sunday is their only payday, that their fans would desert them to watch big-league ball, minor-league leaders sent a hasty telegram to Representative Emanuel Celler. Its gist: please re-open congressional hearings on the majors' baseball monopoly...
Wild Is the Wind (Hal Wallis; Paramount) makes a reasonably honest, week-end farmer's effort to turn the warm loam of natural life. Director George Cukor, though obviously a city feller, has managed to provide himself, for the occasion, with a conspicuously green thumb. Producer Hal Wallis has provided the movie with Italy's Anna Magnani, an actress as earthy (and sometimes as mysteriously beautiful) as a potato; with Anthony Quinn, an actor so radically natural that not even 20 years of Hollywood has spoiled him; and with a screenplay by Arnold Schulman that veers with...
Headmaster. In Memphis, General Sessions Judge Heard Sutton ordered a 26-year-old man not to strike his wife, "or so much as to raise your hand to stir a wind that might blow her hair...