21.   But a stiff wind blowing left to right kept it in play for Bernard Gilkey, who made a routine catch for the third out.

22.   Casting the heavy sink-tip fly line was a chore in the face of a stiff wind.

23.   Drudge clutched his summer-gray straw hat in the stiff wind, squinting like a character actor blown East from a noire film.

24.   Easton attended some of those games, noting that a stiff wind aided some of the baseballs in their journeys out of the park.

25.   Fasano performed this trick against a stiff wind that would have knocked down all but the mightiest drives, so plainly he is coming out of his slump.

26.   Even then, if there is a stiff wind, you can get queasy from a tremor in the image that increases along with the magnification.

27.   Farther south, a stiff wind from the northeast circulating around a New England high-pressure system will direct chilly air into the southern Middle Atlantic and Southeastern States.

28.   Full containment is expected Monday, but Johnston said firefighters were bracing for stiff winds that could fan the flames.

29.   Half the game he was passing against a stiff wind.

30.   He said the city looked like a ghost town, with the air thick with heavy, dark smoke and ash swirling in the stiff winds.