Word: windedly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...ft.1 in., but "please don't call me tiny") U.S. District Judge Ronald Norwood Davies. who came temporarily from Fargo, N. Dak. to preside over the Eastern District of Arkansas. To report on the life and times of Judge Davies, TIME Chicago Correspondent Ed Darby flew to wind-blown North Dakota (his plane was grounded on the way to Grand Forks when a door flew open in mid-air). And one night, done with work for a while. Ronald Davies sat shirtsleeved in his Little Rock chambers, talked long and thoughtfully to Chicago Bureau Correspondents Jack Olsen and Burt...
Belly-Bottom Strain. Then Sal's pals are off again, by bus. on foot, by thumb, roaming the continent, feeling the wind of Wyoming nights and the heat of Texas days, looking for Moriarty's never-to-be-found father or anyone's sister, always expecting the ultimate in music or love or understanding around the next bend in the road. Excitement and movement mean everything. Steady jobs and homes in the suburbs are for the "squares...
...certain in a naval battle!" But Napoleon demanded certainty all along the line. To him a fleet was just an army that happened to walk on the water. Ordered to wheel left or right, to advance or retreat, the fleet obeyed: only poltroons protested that there was no wind, or too many rocks, or not enough water. Whether a ship was a two-or three-decker, was "manned by 500 seasoned seamen or 500 raw, pressed men" was of no account. The damned thing was a ship-and the sooner it behaved like a soldier, the better...
...nose wheel off the concrete when a short, stocky R.A.F. officer riding in the seat behind the pilot got the signal to bail out. Flying Officer Sidney Hughes reached above his head and yanked a handle. The pull snapped down a black curtain (to protect his face from wind blast) and fired three cartridges beneath his seat. Half a second after Hughes was catapulted straight out of the plane, another cartridge fired to drag out a 22-in. chute, which pulled out a 60-in. chute. The second chute, in turn, pulled out the main, 24-ft. chute...
...rough-hewn Texan who ran away at 17 to join the Marines and learned his engineering the hard way as a private contractor and U.S. Army engineer. Retiring after World War II. in which he bossed 170.000 military and civilian construction people in Alaska, De Long got wind of a new kind of jack, more powerful than any before, snapped up the patent rights and brainstormed the idea of a mobile drilling platform for oilmen. Until then, the only offshore drilling was from permanent rigs that cost $1,500.000 to build, another $750,000 to dismantle. Gambling his own funds...