Word: windedly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...long on the twelfth anniversary of Charles I's execution, then was cut down and decapitated; the body was buried under the gallows at Tyburn (near London's present Marble Arch), the head stuck on a pike and displayed atop Westminster Hall. When a high wind blew it down after long exposure, a soldier carried it home...
...Chicago judge, Miller entered radio as a soap-opera actor soon after his graduation from Knox College, Galesburg, 111. in 1938, and after three years in the World War II Navy, became program director at Chicago's WIND, soon switched to disk jockeying and became an immediate success...
...worked the controls. For two hours, a pilot sat watching the instruments. Then he got bored and let the plane fly itself. It did, making minor corrections for each gust of air. It rose to 21,000 ft. to traverse the Rockies, stayed on course through a 100-m.p.h. wind shift over Nevada. Finally, 13 hours and 2,520 miles from Bedford, the pilot took over, took the aircraft the remaining ten miles to Los Angeles International Airport. To the jubilant M.I.T. scientists aboard the plane, he lamented: "I've just lost...
Scramble for the Dollar. In sordid fact, according to Coulter, the average American is "up to his ears in debt," trades jobs "constantly in a frantic scramble for the extra dollar," and by all odds will wind up in jail, divorce court or the psychiatrist's clutches. "Every third or fourth person you meet," said Coulter, "is having psychiatric treatment. Each big apartment building has at least one resident psychiatrist, and some have four or five. It is the boomingest profession in town...
Earlier, Landau had equalled the Harvard record of 9.8 seconds in the 100-yard dash. His record was disallowed because of a ten-mile per hour wind at his back. Sandy Dodge placed second. Princeton's Bob Brown handed Landau his first hurdles loss of the season, as he lunged across the finish line to win the 120-yard high hurdles in 15.3 seconds...