Word: downwinder
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These are hotly debated issues but the town of Brattleboro (12,800 people) lies only four miles from the reactor, 65 per cent of the time downwind. Amherst is within forty miles as is Boston's entire water supply, the Quabbin Reservoir, soon to be supplemented by the Connecticut River. And twenty miles beyond Quabbin lies Springfield with more than 500,000 people. As the Tennessee Valley Authority's manager of power, G. O. Wessenauer, has said...
There was no denying that over 4,500 Utah sheep had staggered, fallen and died-their feet twitching spasmodically and some frothing at the mouth. There was no denying that their carcasses lay scattered across an area stretching 14 miles downwind from the Dugway Proving Grounds, a restricted U.S. Army chemical, biological and radiological research center in western Utah where nerve gases are tested. But last week there was plenty of denying by the Army that anyone had proved Dugway directly responsible for the sheep deaths...
Spinnaker, a huge, billowing foresail used for sailing downwind...
Leeward, the direction the wind is blowing. Thus the leeward boat is downwind of its opponent...
Jibe, to change course while sailing downwind...