Word: basin
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...mentioned in Julia Child's article are "popcorn eaters" compared with San Franciscans, who were completely omitted. At least we don't have to write East for any food or gourmet cooking utensil. We have the best right here, be it shallots, baby veal, limestone lettuce or basin an blanc bowls, all at non-inflated prices...
Whirring Propellers. Last week musicians of all stripes gathered at Manhattan's Basin Street East to hear for themselves. Perched on a pyramid of risers, Rich set a blistering pace, insistently coaxing but never intruding. And when it came time for his solo, all 16 of his sidemen, like disciples at the feet of the master, craned in their chairs to watch and listen. Feet dancing, hands whirring like propellers, he sparked a kind of static electricity between cymbals and drums, tossing in an extra riff here, a random bass line there. His rolls were incredibly fast, his technique...
Collapsing Dome. Southern California's ill winds have their genesis over the Great Basin, a vast plateau that includes the Mojave Desert and is bounded by the Rocky Mountains on the east and the Sierra Nevada to the west. For reasons still not fully understood by meteorologists, dry winds from the north and northwest are occasionally trapped over the basin and form into a stationary dome of high-pressure air. Two or three days later, when the enormous dome collapses, its great mass of air begins moving toward nearby low-pressure areas. Blocked by the towering walls...
Most of the desert air is pushed through the mountain passes (one of which, the Santa Ana canyon, gave the wind its name), where it picks up speed before roaring out into the Los Angeles basin at velocities as high as 100 m.p.h. The remainder flows over the mountains and down the western slopes. Descending toward low-lying coastal areas, the air is compressed and heated-five degrees for every 1,000 ft. of descent. As a result, the Santa Anas often bring 100° temperatures with them-though temperatures in the Great Basin where they started may have been...
...international funds to link Bolivia to the sea by road. The communiqué also provided that both countries would 1) improve the existing railroad service between La Paz and Peru's southern coast, 2) "formalize and enlarge" an agreement covering free navigation on the waters of the Amazon Basin, 3) discuss the possibility of a pipeline across Peru to transport Bolivian petroleum to a Peruvian coastal port...