Word: gale
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Egregious Fault. Last week the Supreme Court was reviewing the case of the Mary A. Whalen, a coastal tanker that went aground in 1968 in gale force winds on a sandbar outside New York harbor. A flashing light maintained by the Coast Guard was not working that night, but the trial court concluded that "the fault of the vessel was more egregious than the fault of the Coast Guard." The blame, ruled that court, was 75%-25%. Yet the damages had to be split evenly. After considering those facts, Justice Potter Stewart, a World War II naval officer, weighed...
Friday afternoon the Severn was calm in the rain for the Crimson's pre-race workout, but by Saturday morning a gale-like tailwind had kicked up the Severn's waters into a ferocious chop with whitecaps...
...Daniel Gale '78, who organized last night's meeting, said that placement in the Yard of all sophomores who were assigned to one of their last three House choices, would be a gradual change toward implementing the proposal made by the Harvard Overseers' Visiting Committee to house all freshmen in the Quadrangle Houses...
...wind tunnel because of tall trees behind and alongside of the green. The wind is usually against you, but it shifts quickly, and you've got to watch it like a sparrow hawk. Once when I was paired with Hogan, Ben hit a full drive into a gale and he was short. Moments later when I hit, my drive carried the green and almost landed out of play in the azaleas behind. The wind had died. It takes a 195-yd. hit, often with a one-iron, to carry the front bunker. The green...
...director J. Edgar Hoover, but quoted two of his former assistants, Cartha DeLoach and Louis B. Nichols, as confirming the existence of the files on Congressmen. FBI Director Clarence M. Kelley later denied that the information had been misused. But many on Capitol Hill suspected otherwise. Said Democratic Senator Gale McGee of Wyoming: "Obviously, it's to be held in reserve for some kind of blackmail." That apparently was not the case. Said one FBI man: "What Hoover did with that stuff may have been improper, but it certainly wasn't blackmail." It is known that Hoover often...