Word: gale
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Like a ballerina bereft of her balance, Hurricane Arlene whirled on a curious course through the Atlantic to open the 1963 storm season. Her wild dance subsided to a gale-force pirouette, then suddenly spun back to hurricane size at week's end. Though she finally seemed headed out to sea, Arlene's sisters* may even now be waiting in the wings. But when they begin their destructive spin toward the U.S. East Coast, they will be met by a group of storm-killing scientists who hope to learn how to stop them...
...said the weary oceanographer, is every bit as tough as "standing in a gale and fog on top of a building a mile and a half high and trying to lower a pingpong ball on a string into a tomato can on the sidewalk...
Into Tibet. Days before, a sudden gust of gale-force wind at the 25,000-ft. level had blown away their tents and spare oxygen bottles, knocked two members of their support party 100 ft. down Everest's flank. Hornbein and Unsoeld were dangerously low on supplies. The climbers had to pick their way around huge outcroppings of rock. Now and then, searching for a foothold, they disregarded passport restrictions and stepped across the Nepalese border into Communist Tibet. No one expected them to go all the way-just to climb as far as they could...
...themselves do the talk ing, passing out friendly tips to the chairborne clods at home (wade like a silent Indian, watch your shadow, keep your hooks sharp). One man, using what looks like two-ton test line, demonstrates his fantastic casting skill by flicking successfully into a 50-m.p.h. gale...
...Most of the men said, "I certainly hope so" or "I'll do my best." Said Jim Whittaker: "Yes, I will." He did-but he lost 30 Ibs. during the six-week-long climb. On the final day, the temperature was a numbing -30°F. Gale-force winds lashed Everest's face as Whittaker and Gombu said goodbye to Expedition Leader Norman Dyhrenfurth at 28,100 ft. and began to work their way to the summit, 928 ft. above. It was, said Dyhrenfurth, "a miracle" that the two men made it. Whittaker and Gombu stayed...