Word: windedly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Saddened but stubbornly loyal, 15,000 British golf fans turned out on the Lindrick course at Worksop, near Sheffield, last week to watch their Ryder Cup pros wind up what promised to be a Gallipoli of golf. After a devastating afternoon of Scotch Foursomes (in which partners alternate strokes on the same ball), Britain's best were behind 3 to 1. The visiting Americans were favored to breeze through all of the eight remaining singles matches...
...dewatermelonization steps: ¶ reprint of a radio essay by CBS Commentator Eric Sevareid reflecting on the recent sad decline of quality in the Herald Tribune, and his hopes for a return to its "old heritage." ¶ A well-pruned letters column in a freshened format that substitutes breeze for wind. ¶ "They Say" an occasional skimming of notable quotes in the news. ¶ "Curmudgeon's Corner" a space to be periodically opened to outraged or outrageous comment...
...with him to a closed-circuit telecast of the Sugar Ray Robinson-Carmen Basilio fight in a Hollywood theater from which they emerged looking as happy as if they had bet on Winner Basilio. But though Hollywood gossips buzzed, both Lauren and Frankie denied a wedding is in the wind...
...brother John spread its power across the country, slashed prices by mass buying, produced their own products. "Mr. George," as he was known to company employees, anticipated the 1929 crash, signed store leases on a yearly basis only, and saw A. & P. prosper throughout the Depression, survive antimonopoly attacks, wind up with some 4,100 outlets and reap, in 1956, nearly $4,500,000 in net sales...
Tito is still riding the wind that has swept away other men and regimes. What makes him significant is the meeting of two great forces-Communism and nationalism-that Tito managed instinctively to play off against each other. When he needed strength for his rebellion against Moscow, the man with peasant roots and romantic flair could draw on his people's patriotism; when he needed strength to subdue his own turbulent people, the practiced conspirator and Marxist dialectician could draw on Moscow police methods. If more of the world could understand the brutality of this ideological alliance-which persists...