Word: gale
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Sleepers Awake. In Nigeria, the cry was "FreeDOM!" and the Congolese yelled " 'depenDANCE!" Whatever its label, the spirit of self-rule was sweeping at gale force across Africa, last of the continents to awaken from the sleep of centuries...
...dust settled, the miners went back in to clear the rubble with no particular fear, for ledoma (earthquake) is a commonplace to the natives who work the Rand and Free State mines. But then, without warning, the wall along the coal seam collapsed with a roar, and a gale-force gust of wind tossed men, machinery and pit props like feathers in its wake. Ventilation fans were smashed and behind the mile-long debris most of the men lay trapped with 70 pit ponies...
Booked Up. Coghlan, who currently lives with his 19-year-old wife and infant daughter in a house trailer parked on the Port Arthur harbor ice, was overdue for some luck. Last summer a sudden Lake Superior gale swallowed Superior's 60-ft. barge, with equipment worth $20,000. Coghlan, fished out after five minutes in the lake, had no applicable insurance, was left with little equipment and $8,000 in debts. Steady elevator-inspection work now has the debts "under control," and Coghlan has bookings for $50,000 more of the same this year. But he yearns...
...last week, when the storm was even higher. Father Abbot Samson Wicksteed, 36, a wartime radioman in an R.A.F. bomber, led husky Brother Joseph, ex-Barrister Brother Thomas and wiry Father Anthony (an R.A.F. squadron leader in the Battle of Britain and D.S.O. winner) once again into the gale. This time there was also a bottle of rum in the tea chest...