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...July 21, 1983, in the middle of the southern hemisphere's winter. Nearly one and a half times as large as the United States, Antarctica is geologically classified as a desert, garnering less than an inch of precipitation each year. It is the coldest, driest and windiest continent, not to mention the highest - Antarctica's average elevation is 7,544 feet (2,299 m). The name Antarctica comes from the Greek word antarktiké meaning "opposite to the north...
...naiveté, I strapped in to the windiest seat in the back right...
...Foot sometimes seemed like a rambling evangelical, Thatcher appeared to be on an endless emotional high, dynamic, aggressive, thoroughly in command of her facts. Herash-brown hair remained carefully coiffed on all but the windiest of days, and her softly tailored suits and dresses (usually in Tory blue) rarely showed a wrinkle. Always a good speechmaker, she sharpened her delivery during the campaign by using an electronic prompting device, something relatively new to British politics and dubbed the "sincerity box" by the press. Unlike Foot, she rarely campaigned on the streets, but swirled efficiently through high-tech plants, bakeries, farms...
...operative word. Heads in the crowd are gray and silver, not black, pink or red. Glasses are for seeing, not for being seen. The shoes are comfortable and the underwear is long. Busloads of grannies and gramps swarm the main street, called Jizo-dori, even on the windiest winter days, to pray for good health, shop for food and clothing, and socialize with their peers in an environment built catering just to them...
...That was the windiest regatta I’ve ever been to, and it was 420s, and we were still first until the last set,” senior crew Laura Schubert said...