Word: hooke
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Conventional radar stations on which Tornado Alley still depends are capable of picking up certain telltale signs that can presage tornadoes, including so-called hook echoes-reflections from areas of heavy precipitation surrounding a rotating parcel of air. But they cannot detect actual movement within the storm. By contrast, Doppler radar not only measures the direction of air flows, but actually clocks the speeds of raindrops and ice particles as they are whirled about in a brewing tornado...
PHILOSOPHY AND PUBLIC POLICY by Sidney Hook...
...seminars at New York University, Professor Sidney Hook often asked students to define Bertrand Russell's beliefs. But no one could trap the gadfly who advocated the nuclear destruction of the U.S.S.R., the condemnation of U.S. imperialism, the adoption of idealism, rationalism or realism. Concluded the professor: "Next time anyone asks you, 'What is Bertrand Russell's philosophy?,' the correct answer is, 'What year, please...
...first 13 miles were enjoyable, but after that it was just a matter of sticking it out and making it to the finish line by hook or by crook," Larson said. After running through Wellesley, Larson walked off and on for the remainder of the race when his lack of training left him feeling "physically abused...
...into a published volume. The exhaustive research of a history thesis leaps out from every page, from a bibliography that numbers over 600 items. The psychobabble, the careless juxtaposition of men and events seem out of place, slapped on in a revision ordered by some editor searching for a hook to brandish in publisher's blurbs. Though sometimes obscured by the fluff, Alitto's tale of one man does emerge in the end. It is a tale worth telling, and as Alitto illuminates how Liang faced universal problems, he does, almost in spite of himself, uncover the universal import...