Word: winds
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...hour before dawn, two winds met. One was moist and warm, the other cold and dry. Comingled ? the warm wind climbing the front of the cold ? they became a single ferocity which shot upwards pummelling, as it went, the Shenandoah, U. S. Navy dirigible...
Already half a mile above land, their ship was being drawn with incredible speed by this last, fiercest rod of wind another mile upward...
Ferocity ? warm wind climbing up the front of cold ? pumelled the splitting smooth-skinned bulk. The ship's nose?in itself a mountain was torn completely from the body. Carrying seven men, including three who had left the control-cabin, it began to spin. Those of the seven who were not desperately engaged in keeping their seats astride a girder, valved gas as freely, as quickly as they could. The lost mountain spinned ? earthward. Nearing ground, Chief Machinist Halliburton fired shot into the gas envelope. Through the twilight, a farmer was signalled, caught a guide-rope, wrapped...
...National Geographical Society. Gray jellyfish, he told about; snails with wings; a fish like the bullhead, with ventral suckers for attaching itself to rocks while feeding; rare arctic birds in little-known summer plumage; land plants which eschew stems to snuggle next the ground and escape the wind; sea kelp, whose writhing shapes even Eskimos often mistook for animal life; carpets of wildflowers, luxuriant timothy, gaudy mosaics of lichen, orange and purple, on the black rock cliffs; the maniacal laughter of sky-filling clouds of dovekies (little auks...
...strong, leathery lips of a professional wind instrument player...