Word: windedly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...throng of 100,000 came to the port of La Guaira as 47 naval ships and 80 fighting planes passed in review. On following days 8,000 public employees, 20,000 labor-union delegates and 50,000 students dutifully paraded. To wind up a friendly week, the dictators added to each other's formidable collection of medals...
This time Bachelor Boston, 35, onetime Boston University football star and Navy demolitions expert, whistled up a wind that nestled firmly in the shoulder of his sail. The sea was a glassy, green highway. Twelve pleasant days later, Boston was stretching his legs in Bermuda...
This long-discussed system remained largely a dream for 50 years. But last week Northrop Aircraft, Inc. recorded the results of seven years of experimentation with "low drag boundary layer control." After elaborate tests with models in wind tunnels, Northrop engineers fitted the wing "of an F94 jet fighter with a "glove" containing twelve slots running lengthwise along the wing. A suction pump driven from the main engine pulled air into the slots and pushed it out astern with the rest of the jet's gases, adding a little to the thrust. The reduction of drag was extraordinary, even...
Scopes, whose trial has been dramatzed into the Broadway hit "Inherit the Wind," was defended by the noted trial lawyer Clarence Darrow. William Jennings Bryan, in his last public appearance, was the state's prosecutor...
...Truman Administration, congressional investigators unraveled before the nation's scandalized eyes a network of influence-peddling that led in and out of the White House offices, the RFC and the halls of Congress. Finally, in 1953, Congress ordered RFC to make no further loans and to wind up those it had outstanding...