Word: winded
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...bases in the Arctic and Antarctic, the newcomer must quickly learn the 30-30-30 Rule of Survival: when exposed to a 30-m.p.h. wind at -30° F., human flesh freezes solid in 30 seconds...
...killing factor is wind chill. The term, glibly cited by TV weathermen but only dimly understood by a flash-frozen populace, is based on a scale that precisely correlates temperature and wind force. Wind chill-expressed in meteorological phraseology as "equivalent temperature"-measures the difference, in impact on exposed skin, between what the thermometer registers and the wind delivers...
...meteorologists' wind-chill table starts at still air (0-m.p.h. wind) and ranges up to winds of 50 m.p.h. While 20° on a windless day can be quite tolerable, a 20-m.p.h. wind makes the received effect of that temperature equivalent to -9° without wind. The arctic nadir on the scale: at -45°, a 50-m.p.h. wind creates the equivalent of -128°-a sensation that is not totally unfamiliar to many Americans this year...
...basketball games to Roots. In all, some 130 million Americans watched at least part of the series. Seven of the eight episodes ranked among the Top Ten in all-time TV ratings (the other three: this year's Super Bowl, Parts 1 and 2 of Gone With the Wind). The last episode drew an audience of 80 million, smashing the record set last November by the first half of GWTW, which told much the same story but from the other side and smothered in magnolia blossoms...
...Allen's five-page description of the effects of the Big Wind on Fire Island won't satisfy even the most avid storm-lovers, then it's doubtful that his book will do much for a general audience. Not many Americans know how to appreciate a good hurricane, and they aren't likely to take time out to read about even the biggest one of all. Which is, of course, their loss. A Wind to Shake the World is a fine book, a wonderful source of stories to sit around and tell when livid storm clouds come steaming across...