Word: windedness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Nielsen, which collects 90% of all dollars spent on national radio and television ratings, knew it was the committee's prime target, and its executives came to the hearings armed with a vanload of statistical charts. But the committeemen were not to be diverted by the long-winded, jargonized...
Seven different stickmen tallied for Harvard in what Coach Munro called "our first real team effort of the season." Taking advantage of their better conditioning, the Crimson virtually ran its skilled, but short-winded opponents off the field.
Yet in almost every one of these areas, Wilson consistently falls down. In fact, he occasionally completely abdicates his role as a leader. During the half-time breaks, he will tell the players to talk among themselves, reserving his own comments for the last few minutes. As one player observed...
"On reaching the country, the President went pell-mell over the fields, following neither road nor path, always on, on, straight ahead! I was much winded, but I would not give in, nor ask him to slow up, because I had the honor of la belle France in my heart...
Mary, Mary, by Jean Kerr, is a Broadway thoroughbred with over 750 performances behind it, and still not winded, frazzled or fading.