Word: gale
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...When a gale blows up and the course is soggy with rain, the grim men who play big-time golf are apt to mutter: "It's a Demaret day." Like a mud-running race horse, Jimmy Demaret (pronounced demerit) always seems to do his best when conditions are worst...
Chief Boston's eleven took advantage of the mild gale at its back to cross the Brown goal once in each of the first and third periods--first on a 31-yard pass from Miklos to pierce Leavitt, then on a short Miklos pitch to Jim Rossiter...
...mountainous, timbered Mt. Desert (pronounced dessert) Island. All one day and all through one night, a great fire eccentrically marched and countermarched around the outskirts of the town, while hundreds of soldiers and townspeople fought to control it. In the afternoon, when the shifting wind began to blow a gale from the northwest, the fire crowned into the tops of trees and leaped forward "as fast as a race horse could run," blasting through wooded estates and touching off great houses along the shore...
...thick, fire-reddened clouds of smoke whipping everywhere, 2,000 people-mostly women and children-gathered on the town pier. Fishing boats and Coast Guard vessels, some of which were forced to maneuver through the smoke with radar, began taking them aboard. Hundreds crossed to the mainland through heavy, gale-driven seas. Then Army bulldozers opened the road and automobiles began running the fiery gauntlet again...
...flight, he doubled back toward the U.S. Coast Guard cutter Bibb, which" was on station as a weather ship about 900 miles northeast of Newfoundland. He found her, with fuel to spare. But as the plane settled lower, the tense and silent passengers saw a fearsome sight. The gale-driven waves were rolling 35 feet high and 100 feet from crest to foaming crest...