Word: winded
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...joint project of the Department of Energy and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, the windmill ?more correctly, wind turbine?has a body by Westinghouse and blades by Lockheed, and cost $1.25 million. Parked by its side is a van full of monitoring equipment and computers that start the rotor turning when the wind hits 12 m.p.h. and shut it off, to prevent it from wearing out, at 40 m.p.h. Since winds averaging nearly 15 m.p.h. blow through Clayton almost every day, the turbine more often than not will be generating 200 kw. of electricity?enough to power...
Thank you for "Wind Shifts in the Pacific" [Jan. 16]. In 1944-45 I served as air-operations officer on Majuro. Since then, I have wondered about that beautiful place but have been unable to learn anything about it even from the Navy...
Roaring through the upper Midwest, the Great Lakes and the Ohio River Valley, from the Appalachians to the Canadian border, a blizzard blasted 31 in. of snow across Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Ohio, Michigan and Wisconsin. With winds clocked at up to 100 m.p.h. (hurricane force is 75 m.p.h.), the wind-chill factor hitting -50° and record-low barometric readings, the National Weather Service classified the big blow as an "extratropical cyclone." That scarcely did justice to this great white whale of a storm. An NWS spokesman in Detroit called the blizzard "one of the worst, if not the worst...
Outside, the stuffed figure of a Minnesota state trooper hangs in effigy, buffeted by the blowing snow. Near by, a white turkey, caricaturing Minnesota Senator Wendell Anderson, twists slowly in the wind. Inside the red brick town hall in Lowry, a hamlet of 257 in west-central Minnesota, angry farmers talk bitterly about Governor Rudy Perpich and his invading "redcoats" and vow never to give up the fight. Declares one white-haired farm wife: 'They're building this line in enemy territory...
...attribute the mysterious cosmic moil to deities. Wishing desperately to better his odds against the weather (or lessen its against him), he invented innumerable prayers, supplications, sacrifices, all intended to coax the gods to bestow better weather. Wanting exactly like modern man to know about tomorrow's wind, he developed the practice of looking for omens of coming weather in the conduct of animals, the tones of the sky or the turnings of foliage. He tried rituals, such as dancing, to control the weather. They did not work, of course, but they made for some lively times...