Word: windedly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...stopped by a plainclothesman who flashed papers and said, "Follow me." Interrogated that night, Chaker was charged next morning with "threatening the foreign security of the state." Unaware that a representative of the Paris government had been secretly talking with the FLN, somebody in French intelligence had got wind of Chaker's mission to Ben Bella...
...right. First, Old Pros Ken Rosewall and Tony Trabert beat Hoad, then Gonzales whipped the new boy, 9-7, 6-4, 3-6, 6-3. ¶ Sailing in the Trans-Pacific yacht race from the Los Angeles coast to Honolulu, Skipper Charles Ullman frantically hunted for a winning wind, first tacked south with his soft. sloop Legend, then north, then south again, finally found a fair wind, nipped across the finish line off Diamond Head last week with a winning corrected time of 11 days 41 min. 41 sec., logging 2,407 miles over the 2,225-mile course...
...must, I must, I must stay alone Until I -wind and find...
...British hope to call a conference of Greek, Turkish and Cypriot representatives this summer, if possible wind up their three-year dispute with Greek Cypriots before the U.N. Assembly meets again in September...
...only one creature! D'you hear, Maurice, there is only one creature!" she exclaimed to him once with "the intensity of a pythoness"-and from dawn to dusk she pursued the manifold forms of this one creature. First thing every morning, she must know just where the wind lay and the precise degree of humidity; around her bed were "a barometer, an outdoor thermometer . . . compasses . . . watches, chronometers, binoculars and magnifying glasses." After breakfast she would rush out into her garden like a starved animal. On visiting someone else's garden, she often "separated the sepals of flowers . . . smelled...