Word: wafts
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...jazz tunes, the sequined sprites taking to the air. The glamour event of the Winter Olympics, the women's figure-skating competition, always the grand finale, has proved the durable stuff of fantasy. Thousands of little girls would like to catch the sparkle from those glittering beads and waft away to the Olympics too. Their elders say simply that they like to watch the sport because it looks both artful and effortless, like flight...
...Tuesday afternoon, shortly after 1 p.m.,Soren sits in the seats of the Astrodome'sdesignated Radio TV area, high above theconvention floor. Powerful electric fans blow coolair into the shadowy seating section. Cheers fromthe floor session--eerily distant--waft past thesilvery rafters. A few feet ahead, bright lightsfocus on a row of stand-up spaces, where cameracrews from MTV, FNN, Comedy Central and othernetworks prepare to film their reporters...
Inside the store's cramped quarters, rich, dry aromas waft from the stack of coffee beans next to the mocha makers by the milk chocolate covered espresso beans ($12.50 per pound). The flavor of Ethiopian yirgacheffe coffee, Coffee Connection literature boasts, "suggests...floral lemon." A sip of "Yemen Mocha Mattari" suggests "spicy fruit or chocolate...
Hogwood then introduced the Modern Jazz Quartet--actually a trio, since Connie Kay, the group's drummer, was under medical observation. Their first piece, Blues in B, was composed by pianist John Lewis. This light arrangement, which emphasized Milt Jackson's vibraharp, seemed to waft through...
...southland's smoggy air largely results from poor atmospheric ventilation in the bowl-shaped South Coast Air Basin, where an "inversion layer" traps pollutants under a lid of hot air. In the daytime, ocean breezes waft pollution inland all across the basin. Then sunshine triggers a photochemical reaction that produces the highest ozone concentration in the U.S. Established in 1977, the district aims to bring Southern California's air quality into compliance with federal standards by 2010. If the agency falls short of that goal, Washington could take over. Given the terrain and the hodgepodge of local governments involved, only...