Word: gale
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...afternoon we fished the junction of the Ammonoosic and the Gale, an area pretty well defined by a pair of bridges, Again, the water looked good, but so early in the season nothing much was happening. The people I was with managed to lose every lure they had (something of a feat), and proceded to lie in the sun, buy some beer and relax. The air warmed up in the afternoon, though the water stayed cold. All in all it made a pretty relaxing first fishing trip of the year...
...kind in naval history-wound up in a banging, clanging draw, and in May 1862 the Merrimack was scuttled to keep it from falling into the hands of the advancing Union forces. The Monitor met a different fate. Nine months after the fight, she sank in a gale off Cape Hatteras, N.C., taking 16 members of her 63-man crew down with her. The precise spot where the ship-with her eight layers of 1-in. iron plates and two 111n. guns in a revolving turret-went down remained a mystery...
...m.p.h. gale is blowing in a blinding sheet of snow. The seas are pounding in 15-ft. waves, and all sensible fishermen have long since headed for port. But here, in the glare of arc lamps, heavily clothed figures are wrestling with craneloads of drill casings, dancing about on the slippery, freezing deck like madmen. No need to shout here: the screaming wind and throbbing drill machinery make conversation next to impossible...
...officials and businessmen did not bother to come to work. West German President Gustav Heinemann loaded several bundles of documents in his car and drove off to his country house. When one Bonn burgher called information to get the emergency number of the municipal hospital, the answer was a gale of shrieking laughter...
...date, more than 60,000 visitors have paid two dollars each for the round-trip boat ride and one-hour guided tour of the pen. Though there are 13 scheduled tours a day, come gale, fog or high water, tickets for weekends and holidays are sold out a month in advance. Tourists include some of the Indians who occupied Alcatraz in 1970, penologists, historians, police officers, prison wardens, troops of schoolchildren and an occasional former inmate (one ex-con insisted on getting married there, so that his wife would understand what he had been through...