Word: winded
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...hundredth time) to step on his own message and defend a “pattern of flip-flops,” and produced the single most memorable advertisement of the year—footage of Kerry windsurfing off Nantucket, and sailing “whichever way the wind blows” on the issues...
...defeat because he seems to be a politician who test-markets his every utterance, whereas President George W. Bush, love him or hate him, comes across as a man who means what he says and doesn't stick his finger in the air checking to see which way the wind is blowing before he speaks. Nicky Billou Toronto...
...flying data-collecting instrument, with an air- sampling rod protruding from its nose and three radar units fastened to its nose, belly and tail. In addition, it has a pipe in the fuselage for launching sensor-loaded canisters known as dropwindsondes, sleek probes that take continuous readings of wind speeds, temperature, pressure and humidity as they parachute down. By combining the data obtained by multiple dropwindsondes, computer models can recon- struct the environment both inside and outside a hurricane, identifying conditions that feed or sap its strength or steer it in a particular direction. As a result, five-day hurricane...
...each one, Paul Chang, a NOAA researcher who works on remote sensing technology, amasses more information about how his instruments operate, and that information, he says, will allow him to calibrate similar instruments mounted on satellites. Someday he and his colleagues may be able to monitor the dynamic surface wind field in the vicinity of a hurricane at a comfortable remove...
Kovacs was part of a Harvard squad that finished eighth in simply atrocious conditions that cancelled the action on Saturday. The conditions were even worse on the day the teams did sail all of five races. Wind speeds reached 30 knots...