Word: draught
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...these high "standing waves" that are under suspicion. They often contain winds that blow either up or down at 4,000 ft. per min. A down-draught of such violence can smack down a high-flying airplane against a chunk of rock before the pilot realizes he is anywhere near a mountain. Sometimes his altimeter (which measures air pressure, not actual height) gives him no warning; the turbulent waves in the lee of high mountains often have spots of rarefied air that make the instrument read much higher than it should...
...write like a man talking. Frost himself talks like a poet, so that it is not always easy to tell whether he is quoting from his works or taking part in a conversation. An English friend once decided that his voice had "the body and tang of good draught cider," but to an Irishman hearing him read his verse it seemed that his words "were flung out from crags-they come to me like the barking of an eagle...
...Canal; he also indulged his harem on Paris gowns. Sixteen years after Ismail began his gilded reign, his treasury was empty and his palace besieged by foreign creditors. Ismail abdicated and retired into exile (where he died, characteristically, of trying to gulp down two bottles of champagne at one draught). His Moslem subjects began killing Europeans. The British bombarded Alexandria in 1882, and then took over. They balanced the budget, and set up a sound potential administration, but failed to do much to better the lot of the downtrodden fellahin...
...Americans, used to a light, mild-tasting beer, did not take to the bitter draught. And when Guinness launched an advertising campaign, the Treasury censored its famed slogans, including "My Goodness, My Guinness" (a weak substitute: "A Man's Drink...
...dunes along the east-west highways. In parts of Oklahoma the swirling dust cut visibility to half a mile. Winds in northern Texas sawed the sandy earth out from between dead cotton stocks, scooped fine topsoil from dry fields where winter wheat had failed to sprout because of long draught. Even in Dallas, 300 miles away, darkness came an hour early and sand sifted under windows and doors. Those who remembered the gritty, black devastating dust storms of the "Dirty Thirties" looked long and carefully...