Word: windedly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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With a second quarter shift of wind against Harvard, Princeton organized its attack in an effort to carry the ball through the hungry pool of mud left in mid-field by Friday's rain. Harvard's short passing attack slowed halfway through the second quarter after the team's spirited first quarter burst, and as the half ended, fullbacks Lanny Keyes and Chris Provensen found the Princeton line strong and very anxious to score...
...Cold wind and drumming rain beat the golden leaves off oak trees, and the great cliffs of the Hudson were draped in fog, but inside the dining room of West Point's Thayer Hotel the President of the U.S. talked long and gaily between bites of roast beef. His wife, happy too, leaned over and planted a light kiss on Dwight Eisenhower's right cheek for no special reason at all. Ike, like thousands of other old grads this week, was making that American pilgrimage, a homecoming to his alma mater. The occasion: an informal reunion...
Then Khrushchev called at the embassy of the criminal Turks and blandly declared: "When Turkey is warm, a cool wind can go from the Soviet Union to Turkey and cool it off. And a warm breeze can come north from Turkey, and so there will always be a moderate climate." The Syrian attempts to recover their dignity were both funny and pathetic. The NATO maneuvers were forgotten. To save what face they could, the Syrians moved Fortification Week ceremonies ahead, and President Shukri el Kuwatly dutifully dug his spade into Syrian soil, crying defiance to the "invader" even...
...long-married, long-separated ancients displayed some vigorous dancing form-"Miss Ruth" can still kick up a ripply Oriental routine-they were liveliest when kicking TV. Shawn on TV choreography: "The cameras are so nervous they're always coming up under the girls' skirts or having wind machines or closeups. The camera ought to stay in one spot and let the dancer have his day." Said silver-haired Ruth: "I'm green with envy at the space TV gives to baseball. Do you suppose we will ever grow up like the Athenians-where we really...
Splash in Mexico. A child painter who won her first prize when she was twelve, Marcia Bennett bucked parental objections ("My father thought I would wind up barefooted living with a gigolo in some basement") to follow through with an art career after studying at Columbia and Yale. Married to a Washington, D.C. businessman, Marcia fell in love with Mexico on a vacation trip, persuaded her husband to go into business there as a mining engineer. She soon managed to become a friend of such conflicting personalities as Diego Rivera, Rufino Tamayo, David Siqueiros. Her splashy, arresting style is strong...