Word: barometricize
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The brilliant American icon gets overtaken from time to time by his own apparent incoherence, his strangeness. He kept minutely detailed account books, for example--he was an obsessive record keeper who made daily notes on everything from barometric readings to the progress of 29 varieties of vegetables at Monticello...
Sometimes, the capital's barometric pressure takes a sudden turn. One night you go to bed and independent counsel Kenneth Starr is a straight-shooting, courtly lawyer who can rise above politics. The next day you get up and Starr is Clinton's sworn enemy, with ties to the tobacco...
The Web page displays the current temperature, wind speed and direction, precipitation levels and barometric pressure.
The other force is Gear Freakery. This is almost exclusively a male obsession, perhaps because a lot of gear has vaguely military associations (guns, of course, are gear). A definition is elusive, but a wristwatch that just tells time is not gear. A wristwatch that also reads out altitude and...
The detonator, in fact, is considered one of the main keys to the bombing puzzle. Thomas Hayes, a leading forensics expert, did the main detective work on a minute piece of timer recovered from the wreckage by Scottish authorities. In a recent book about the Lockerbie investigation, On the Trail...