Word: gale
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...since 1727, when records began, had Britain suffered a wetter summer. When it came time for the heavy fall rains, the soggy earth could take no more.As gale after gale swept over nearly every county in England and Wales, the floods seeped out onto 150 main roads, bringing traffic to a standstill. Near Dover, a chunk of the famed white cliffs fell onto the railway lines. Swans swam placidly in the streets of (of all places) Bath. Last week it was still raining. Noted London's Evening Standard sourly: "The tanned appearance of many Londoners is not sunburn...
...Houses to serve with previously elected Class Marshals on the Class Committee. Those selected were Roger A. Snyder, of Adams and Upper Derby, Pa.; John T. Daley, of Dudley and West Roxbury; Richard K. Ellingboe, of Dunster and Wilmington, Del.; Douglas E. Buie, of Kirkland and Norfolk, Va.; Christopher Gale, of Eliot and Webster Groves, Mo.; Larry J. Hohit, of Leverett and Greenwood, Ind.; Thomas H. Moss, of Lowell and Cleveland, Ohio; Claude E. Welch of Quincy and Belmont; and Eliot T. Putnam, Jr., of Winthrop and Dedham...
...girls chosen include Deborah H. of Whitman Hall and Williams- History and Literature; Judith H. of Briggs Hall and Worcester, Helen H. Arnold, of Cabot Hall Oak Ridge, Tenn., Mathematics; B. DuBois, of Gilman House and Conn., History and Literature. Also elected were Ann Gale, of Cabot and Glencoe, III., Biochemistry; S. Garelick, of Cambridge, History Literature; Judith L. Goldstein, of Center, Social Relations; Janet Martin of Holmes Hall and N.Y., History and Literature; C. Merton, of Cambridge and on-Hudson, N.Y., Social Relations; Patricia N. Wagar, of Holmes Hall Madison, N.J., History; and Susan Warram, of Boston, American History...
CHRISTOPHER GALE...
...been bought at great price, the life of Britain's greatest hero. But only the naval garrison and a few Britons beleaguered in the shadow of Gibraltar's rock knew what had happened off Cape Trafalgar that October day in 1805. A howling westerly gale bedeviled Cuthbert Collingwood, Vice Admiral of the Blue, who had succeeded to command of the victorious British fleet, and his ships were fighting for their lives, trying to claw off a lee shore. Five days whistled through the rigging before Collingwood could dispatch the tidings on which the world hung...