Word: gale
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...regulation has produced a number of unplanned side effects in Lamont. The characteristic odor has become part of the Harvard experience. The entire fifth and sixth levels are afflicted with an audible and tactile rumble, which sets scores of those little panes in the light fixtures rattling. A cold gale often blows out of the vents in Woodberry poetry room. Most distracting, however, is the fifth floor's persistent ethereal squeak...
...Crimson has 'Cliffies on all four boards--news, editorial, business, and photography. Several Radcliffe undergraduates have become executives: Judith A. Blitman '61 was photographic chairman, and Mary Ellen Gale '62 was assistant managing editor...
From Tokyo to Tennessee, from the Baltic to the Bosporus, a killer winter raged across many parts of the world last week. Blizzards and savage winds took 300 lives in Europe, and another 150 in the U.S. A slashing gale capsized a ferry in the Korea Strait, causing 137 deaths, and an avalanche in the mountains of north central Japan entombed 19 persons. The thermometer was playing tricks. While Moscow's temperature was 11°, the mercury plummeted to fantastic depths in a broad swath across the U.S.: -19° in Cleveland, -30° in parts of Kentucky...
...howling gale from the Arctic icebox collided over Western Europe with warm, moist winds from the Mediterranean. The result: the most savage winter storms of the century...
...England last week, they were braving gale-force winds and 20°-below-zero temperatures in the big old places such as Stowe and Bromley, as well as in a host of small new ones that have been sprouting on the hills each year. In the West, they were trying out the ski tows and warming huts at such new places as Big Mountain in Montana and Alpine Meadows in California. But the major mecca for college-agers at Christmastime is the town of Aspen, developed by the late industrialist Walter Paepcke high in the Rocky Mountains, 105 miles southwest...