Word: quadrantal
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...Shut up!" he yelled, drawing a few strands from another quadrant down over his landing pad. "Nice nose," he offered in feeble rebuttal...
...plant, leaving hundreds dead as they slept. The gas quickly enveloped the city's railway station, where beggars were huddled against the chill. In minutes, a score had died and 200 others were gravely ill. Through temples and shops, over streets and lakes, across a 25-sq.-mi. quadrant of the city, the cloud continued to spread, noiselessly and lethally. The night air was fairly cool (about 60° F), the wind was almost calm, and a heavy mist clung to the earth; those conditions prevented the gas from dissipating, as it would have done during...
...Hayden Planetarium at the Boston Museum of Science has also been flooded with calls. Monday they received more than 50, museum official Bob Burnston said. Museum workers taking the calls have explained that the planets, when most nearly aligned before dawn today, were grouped within a 98-degree quadrant around the sun and that even perfect alignment would cause only a one millimeter tide on the sun. Burnston said...
...slight rain is falling in the north quadrant of the United States Military Academy. The fog from the Hudson River has rolled in over the campus and the great mass of uniformly gray buildings that are West Point has become indistinguishable from the atmosphere. In the courtyard, a brigade of cadets--dressed in gray rain slickers, gray caps with gray rain hoods, and gray trousers--lines up for formation and review. It looks somber and depressing, one first class cadet (senior) says, but look on the bright side. Things get even worse during January and February (they call...
...inner core of the search for Moro and his captors covered a quadrant of more than 20 square miles. Working outward from the scene of the ambush, police made from 2,000 to 3,000 searches, building to building, concentrating on garages and basements. The hunters were organized in squads of twelve, infantry-style, with flanking and rear guards...