Word: vortexes
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...hometown. Independence was a boom town in the first half of the 19th century, one of the major outfitting centers for wagon trains heading west. By the turn of the century, it had become an agricultural and livestock center. Today, although Independence is steadily being pulled into the vortex of metropolitan Kansas City, its center remains a prosperous, pleasant county seat...
Never in our history has a White House aide been at the vortex of such pressure, been the man to orchestrate so many traumatic events, been torn by so many personal emotions, doubts, loyalties. How could he have continued to believe in Nixon? It is no simple matter to arrange your sense of duty when you see it as Haig did. "It involves the country and the American people," is all he will say now. "That's what it was all about." He deserves to be listened...
...tranquil appearance from afar, it hardly seems hospitable to life. Its atmosphere is apparently ravaged, not only by great bolts of lightning but also by winds with velocities of more than 300 m.p.h. In fact, Jupiter's great red spot, long a puzzle to astronomers, could be the vortex of a violent Jovian storm...
Scientists have found other indications of global cooling. For one thing there has been a noticeable expansion of the great belt of dry, high-altitude polar winds -the so-called circumpolar vortex-that sweep from west to east around the top and bottom of the world. Indeed it is the widening of this cap of cold air that is the immediate cause of Africa's drought. By blocking moisture-bearing equatorial winds and preventing them from bringing rainfall to the parched sub-Sahara region, as well as other drought-ridden areas stretching all the way from Central America...
...film is a variation on the Connecticut Yankee saga. An exterminator enters a vortex, precipitating the events of the movie. The great problem of the immortals is boredom. Boredom is a problem which seems only to get worse, and the entrance of the intruder, excellently played by Sean Connery, promises a rare amusement. Lately, an epidemic has swept through the population, leaving its victims--called "apathetics"--looking like rag dolls. The expression of bemused revulsion on Connery's face when the apathetics, dramatically geritolized by the sweat on his body, paw him with open lust, is a high point...