Word: windedly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Dark clouds gathered and a cold but muggy wind whistled through black gowns yesterday morning as the Class of '57 marched uneasily into the Sever Quadrangle to say good-bye to itself and to Harvard College. The affair was Class...
...carriers and to save Yamamoto's master campaign. During the U.S. torpedo runs, he put his men to work frantically rearming the planes for a counterstrike against the U.S. carriers. The flight decks were packed with armed, fueled planes as the big ships began turning into the wind. At 1024 the order to start launching came down from Akagi's bridge by voice tube, and the air officer flapped a white flag. At that instant, slanting and howling down at 70° out of light clouds, the SBD Dauntless dive bombers of Enterprise and Yorktown bore down undetected...
...store sales for the week ended May 25 slipped 1% behind the corresponding week in 1956. Yet according to the Federal Reserve, sales for the year to date were 2% better than last year. Predicted Chicago's Commercial Discount Corp., after a survey of 361 retailers: sales will wind up 1957 at least 6% higher than 1956's record...
...first blink, this seems to be one of those drab little British dramas in which an ill wind can be heard whistling across the raw clay of a new housing development. But there is an extra dimension: magic of sorts. At St. Bride's, a public school "of the second class," middle-aged Bill Mor wonders what to do with a life already half wasted in the chalky smog of history classrooms and hopelessly Potterized by his wife, a ruthless practitioner of "one-upmanship." The chance of liberation comes in the figure of a beautiful, boyish girl artist named...
...showing of livestock and dairy production in Khrushchev's Russia, which in some categories is still below Czarist levels, Soviet specialists in the West doubt that Khrushchev can meet his exuberant boasts. Elsewhere in his speech Comrade Khrushchev quoted an old Russian proverb: "A dog barks and the wind carries the sound away...