Word: windedness
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Incorrigible cinemaddicts may insist on regarding Charles Boyer as a romantic figure-even in his shabby overcoat and battered hat. But the hero of Confidential Agent is far from a stock heroic figure. He is middleaged, greying, easily winded and persistent rather than brave. A Spanish Loyalist soldier whose wife...
The rich tin mines and oil pools of The Netherlands East Indies had been prize loot for the Japanese. Dropping all such stolen property last month, the Japs took time to throw a sharp tack in the path of the former owners. On Java they granted independence to a "Republic...
Harry Truman and Joseph Stalin got along strikingly well. Stalin's dislike of Winston Churchill and his long-winded speeches was never more apparent. Once, when Churchill voiced a detailed bill of complaint against Russian plundering in southeastern Europe, Stalin merely grunted; his interpreter said that he had no...
The Matabele, a savage offshoot of the Zulu tribe, named their warrior king Lobengula ("He Who Drives Like the Wind"). But by 1880 the fat, short-winded monarch preferred to lie on his bed toying with the stolen diamonds he kept in a couple of kerosene cans, while his wives...
The News tailored the diary's meandering 450,000 words down to a tenth of its length. It also cleaned it up. (Mussolini is quoted as calling King Vittorio Emanuele an "S.O.B."; the News delicately notes that "the Italian term was more lurid and anatomical.") Generally, however, the Ciano...