Word: gale
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...birds had hitched a free passage on cattle boats to South America. Now the prevailing theory is that sometime around the turn of the century-when they were first sighted in the Guianas-a single flock of the birds, migrating from Senegal northward, was trapped in an easterly gale, blown off course clear across the Atlantic to the South American coast. The few hardy survivors nested, reproduced and moved north to the U.S. about 1941 in ever increasing numbers...
Before the start of last week's race. Crewman Bunny Rigg, burly editor of the Skipper magazine, cracked slyly: "Don't bet against us." Few did. When the winds freshened to gale strength on the fifth day out, other boats were plagued with seasickness. But Finisterre's shipshape crew kept every possible inch of sail flying, whipped past far bigger boats laboring under storm rigs. "That blow came through like a buzz saw," said Mitchell later. "The boat was knifing out of the water and porpoising. It was wet below, but we had our hot meals...
...Byrd was yodeling for Johnson and against Kennedy through his West Virginia mountains last week. "For two years I've been talking, Lyndon up out in my state," says Nevada's Alan Bible. "He'd be a honey of a President," glows Wyoming's Gale McGee. Washington's Warren Magnuson furloughed his able administrative assistant, Irvin Hoff, for a brief forward observer's mission through the Rocky Mountain and Pacific Coast states to seek out the delegates and discover the arcane pockets of potential Johnson strength. Nor are the Johnson enthusiasts restricted...
...Annunzio began his unlikely career by being born. not. as he claimed, in a bark at sea during a gale, but in the half-pagan, half-bigoted province of Abruzzi...
...Supreme Court chamber was turned into a Senate dormitory. Lady Bird Johnson showed up with a fresh change of pajamas for the majority leader. Maine's Margaret Smith posed daintily for photographers as she tucked herself into a cot (fully clothed) for the night. Wyoming's Gale McGee hauled in a sleeping bag. Wisconsin's Bill Proxmire got himself photographed in his skivvies. At first it almost seemed fun: a visit to the Senate gallery became a social must for Washington's late-evening crowds...