Word: shear
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Airport were being thrashed by a top-of-the-scale, level-6 thunderstorm. The plane and its human cargo--139 passengers and six crew members--were being tossed around by winds up to 80 m.p.h. And in the cockpit, the pilot and co-pilot were getting two separate wind-shear alerts. When the wheels of the twin-engine Super MD-80 finally touched down, it was on a runway made slick by heavy rain and marble-size hail...
...Claudia Shear writes in Blown Sideways Through Life, "Everyone has at least one story that will stop your heart." We all know people like this, if we're not one of them ourselves. We all know someone who was the strongest, most resilient person we'd ever met. Unfortunately, all too often we haven't kept in touch with that person and have no idea how she or he is doing. But we'd like to know...
...question is what's going to happen in the coming hurricane season. The westerly wind patterns that El Nino fosters tend to shear off the tops of developing Atlantic Ocean hurricanes. Last year, for example, when El Nino was firmly in control, the Atlantic hurricane season was over almost before it began. La Nina, by contrast, partners with wind patterns that favor the formation of Atlantic Ocean hurricanes. The problem is that forecasters at the moment are looking at a mixed picture. While sea-surface temperatures in parts of the tropical Pacific have dropped precipitately, there are still substantial patches...
Women's bodies have been subjects of great art for centuries. So why is it that, in this day and age of supposed "enlightenment," near-starvation thinness is worshipped as ideal, and everything else is slammed as simply "fat?" In Blown Sideways Through Life, Claudia Shear discusses how being fat doesn't have the dangerous allure that drugs and alcohol do: "You're just fat," she sighs. Wander into any Express store, and notice how the skirts are cut so that any woman who has any sort of shape to her body (other than that of a stick) will...
...only the offensive line's shear bulk that makes it such a force. Harvard's linemen have also shown speed and quickness in setting up end-arounds and receiver screens...