Barry Popick says other cities in the central United States called Chicago a "windy city."

VOA: special.2011.07.17

Up a trackless slope climbs the master artist, and at the top, on a windy ridge, whom do you think he meets?

伟大的艺术家在那无路可寻的山峰上攀登，他登上山顶，迎风而立，你们猜他遇到了谁？

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Language expert Barry Popick says on his web site that Chicago was called a "windy city" because of the wind that blows off of Lake Michigan.

VOA: special.2010.01.10

Crossing it on a windy day can make your heart skip a beat or two.

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At home I remember the cyclists, one of them in their eighties, who I met on a very windy Saturday morning riding around a twenty mile course in New Longton to help people living in the developing world overcome their water shortage.

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"The topography plus the hot, windy weather created a perfect storm for the fire to spread fast, " he said.

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