Word: vortexes
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...fighting last week was violent, especially in the bloody, muddy vortex of the Cologne plain. One U.S. officer called it "the hardest and most costly fighting I have ever seen, worse than anything in the last war." For security reasons the extent of U.S. casualties was veiled, but it was known that at least three divisions had been badly mauled. Correspondents in Paris reported the arrival of "heavily loaded" hospital trains...
...saturated with ocean vapor, cools off in the upper atmosphere, the air currents move faster & faster. Soon the growing whirlwind, given a counterclockwise spiraling motion by the earth's rotation (it is clockwise in the Southern hemisphere), resembles a vast phonograph record, with a hollow core, the vortex or "eye" of the storm, through which the sun may shine on the turbulent sea below...
...most violent gusts are at its leading edge. Sucking up water from the sea, which may rise 20 feet, the disk roars on at 10 to 50 m.p.h. along the path of least resistance, i.e., in the direction of lowest pressure. In the path over which a northbound vortex passes, the storm first blows from the east, offers a brief lull at its 8-to-10-mile eye, then hits from the west. Average life of a hurricane is nine days...
...back to Washington. The flyers (Colonel Lloyd B. Woods, ist Lieut. Frank Record, Major Harry Wexler, a meteorologist) reported that it was not as bad as flying through a summer thunderstorm. Their chief scientific observation: besides its horizontal circular motion, a hurricane has strong upward air currents at its vortex and down currents at its perimeter. The plane was sucked up so steeply at the vortex that it was "just like going up in an elevator...
...Decide what you want the newspapers to hit hardest and then shape each hearing so that the main point becomes the vortex of the testimony. Once that vortex is reached, adjourn...