Word: chubasco
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Portuguese tuna-clipper returns to port after riding out a "chubasco" (tropical) storm off the Mexican coast. After two days & nights at the wheel the skipper, marooned in his pilot house, began to long to pray. The boat's tiny chapel was well aft, had to be reached across the open deck. Somehow the skipper made it, only to find the chapel empty of its gear. Desperate for something to pray to he tore a calendar off a locker wall, prayed to the figure printed on it. A few hours later the storm went down. Reporter Miller takes...
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