Word: eastward
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...more promisingly. In the West, a ridge of high pressure has hovered nearly 800 miles off the California coast for the past two months, blocking the usual flow of moist air from the Pacific and keeping the area dryer (and warmer) than usual. Meanwhile, the jet stream that moves eastward across the continent and down from Canada is bringing dryer (and colder) air than usual to the northeastern U.S. The stream has not looped south far enough to sweep up warm air from the Gulf of Mexico, as it did during the relatively balmy winter...
Suddenly the nightmare, the conflict that had only been discussed as a worst-case scenario, was at hand-war amid the oilfields and across the vital oil routes of the Persian Gulf. Day after day last week, Iraqi pilots flying Soviet-built MiGs headed eastward for bombing raids on military targets and oil facilities across the Iranian border, including the Tigris-Euphrates estuary known as Shatt al Arab. Caught by surprise at first, the Iranians responded with attacks of their own, sending American-made Phantom F-4 fighter-bombers against Iraqi cities and installations. A fearful battle was under...
...thunderstorms. Said Maxie: "I said to Kris, 'We could land and do this another day.' " The reply: "We'd better go for it." For six hours, they drifted in the center of the storms. Finally, over Rapid City, S. Dak., they broke into the clear, propelled eastward by winds that drove them up to 90 m.p.h. Then, as they crossed the Great Lakes, Maxie fell ill from lack of oxygen and too many cookies. Bundled in two sleeping bags against the subzero cold, Maxie switched to pure oxygen and recovered. As they neared the East Coast, they...
...landed in the late afternoon in Walmar, Minnesota, a refreshing stop after the dry-rot outposts of the Plains. Walmar seemed typical of those clean, secure, Main Street towns that appear nestled in a green effulgence when you glide eastward over the Missouri. A short, 40 mile hitch by road took me to Flying Cloud Airport, just outside of Minneapolis, where I unrolled a sleeping bag and spent the night...
...Sophisticaiton could not repel spirit. Yang rammed a screaming yin across the night sky. He brought into his gut the paragon of rationality and the pride of corporate innovation and technology and regergitated it all over the heavans with an ass slappin' yell. Western, righteous stuff was taking it eastward home to its staid, straight beginnings, sp.tting and yawping...