Word: gale
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...unmoved by the magazines' plight. A House bill drafted by Representative James Hanley that did not reduce but merely stretched out the phased increases from five to ten years died last summer. The Senate Post Office Committee will soon vote on a similar bill, authored by Committee Chairman Gale McGee...
Woody Hayes and former Chicago Bear Star Gale Sayers (representing his alma mater Kansas) both visited Summit, N.J., recently-and for good reason. Summit is the home town of Running Back Willie Wilson, one of the East Coast's brightest high school football stars. The two football celebrities were only a part of a 40-man invasion force that, according to Wilson's coach Howie Anderson, lined up "like vacuum cleaner salesmen" to see Wilson...
Their immediate goal of getting shelter from the blistering cold and icy gale-winds, however, brought them circling around the summit of the mountain. All hope of getting back to the shelter was lost after another hour because the blizzard had become so fierce that they could no longer walk upright. Stranded with only minimal supplies and food, the group had no other choice but to try to build up some sort of shelter and hope the blizzard subsided before they starved or froze...
Saudi Arabia is almost the size of Texas and Alaska combined, and 98% of it is barren, reddish brown desert; there are no rivers or lakes. Summer temperatures boil up to 120° in the forenoon, and nights can be shiveringly cool. During the month-long spring gale, or shamal, the blowing sand sifts into the loose robes worn by most Saudis and mantles the cities in white powdery dust...
...tomorrow at 2 p.m. and 8 p.m. Other skaters who will be performing are Sandra and Val Bezic, 1973 Canadian Pair Champions; Ann and Skip Millier, 1973 U.S. Dance Silver Medalists; Dorothy Hamill, 1973 U.S. Ladies' Silver Medalist; Lynn Nightingale, 1973 Canadian Ladies" Silver Medalist; Gale and Joel Fuhrman, 1973 U.S. Pair Silver Medalists; and Juli McKinstry, 1973 U.S. Ladies' Bronze Medalist...