Word: barometricize
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The Enola Gay bore northeast while Navyman Parsons worked, now straddling Little Boy, now lying on his back, now wriggling on his belly. He checked and closed Little Boy's complex circuits, tested the barometric switches. At 0330 the Enola Gay passed beyond Tinian's radio range.
At 0730, after Parsons had cut the umbilical cord linking Little Boy and the Enola Gay, the bomb was "final"-a mighty instrument of war. Four minutes from the unsuspecting target city, Parsons threw the toggle switch that put Little Boy on its own battery power. At 0915 on that...
A politician with a barometric response to popular mood, shrewd Habib Bourguiba recognized that his only hope of heading off a national swing to neutralism lay in putting himself at the head of the anti-French parade. Bourguiba ordered 400 French civilians out of the Tunisian-Algerian border area "for...
The high-low pressure area extending over more than 1,750 miles of Atlantic coastline shows a 2 1/2 inch barometric pressure difference between northern and southern extremes. The local average temperature has fallen two degrees a day and cold air is forming in northern New England, but the storm...
Tepper is not sure what starts an atmospheric wave; often an advancing mass of cold air seems to be the cause. But once the wave gets going, its front gets steeper and steeper and the air in the wave may rise more than a mile in a few minutes. This...