Word: windedly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Against the Wind. The rest of Nixon's week was given over mainly to hammering out the Administration's program for presentation to legislative leaders. Friday morning the conference was with the Department of Health, Education and Welfare; that afternoon the Agriculture Department proposals were discussed; next morning it was the Mutual Security program. The style of the sessions was informal, generally on a first-name basis, although some officials, e.g., Agriculture Secretary Ezra Taft Benson, alternated between "Mr. Vice President" and "Dick...
...Orchestra has attained a level of proficiency where such defects as timid openings and sloppy horn passages should be removed in rehearsal. Except for these lapses, the Orchestra played well, and its wind solos continued to be exceptionally lovely. The strings require more warmth and feeling in their glossy tone, but, as a section, they sound very well. The full orchestra, playing alone, was too constrained for such a highly dramatic work...
...something like a V-nosed toboggan with curled up edges. The bottom and the outer sides of the curls are covered with heat-resisting ceramic, and the "controlled environment space" for a bomb or a crew to ride in is a pressurized, insulated sphere sheltered from heat and wind pressure inside the bow of the space toboggan...
...distance that insects can fly depends largely on the help that they get from the wind. If they stay in the air for long periods, as many of them can, they will be carried long distances even if their own speed is low. A few insects do fairly well without any wind. Dr. Hocking calculates that desert locusts can fly 217 miles at 5.6 m.p.h. Best of all are monarch butterflies, which can fly 650 miles at 6.2 m.p.h. They can stay in the air so long that a good tail wind would help them across the Atlantic without refueling...
...days earlier than forecast. The key "miscellaneous" category, which includes all manufactured goods and is generally considered a good barometer, slipped only 12.4% below last year, and only 2.8% below the week before, considerably less, say railroaders, than the normal seasonal decline. Total for the year will probably wind up about 5½% less than last year. In the 1953-54 recession the drop was 11.6%, in the 1949 slump 15.9%. Moreover, truck lines, which carry 17% of all freight, are doing better than last year...