Word: gale
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...graphite fire. A similar request went out the same day to the Swedish nuclear authority. The U.S. Government stepped forward to offer assistance, but the Soviets politely rejected it, saying that they had the means to deal with the situation. Moscow did invite Dr. Robert Gale, a UCLA bone-marrow-transplant specialist, to provide medical aid to Chernobyl victims...
...while Princeton's long services were being buffeted down in mid-flight, Harvard was using the steady gale to support its down-field passing--and to put constant pressure on Tiger netminder Dodie Colavecchio...
...Polish freighter Busko Zdroj foundered in a gale 100 miles off the Danish coast with the loss of 24 of its 25-man crew. Following a lengthy inquiry, a maritime court in Gdynia has found that the loss of the Busko Zdroj was the result of official bungling...
Funny thing, a hurricane. Winds whip at gale force. Massachusetts shuts down and prepares for the worst. And at Harvard, Gloria is cause for celebration. For the first time since the blizzard of 1978, and only the third this century, the University closed its doors. And the student body, well, it responded in good form...
...such caveats should be applied to Back to the Future, directed by Robert Zemeckis and written by Zemeckis and Bob Gale. What moviegoer of any age could resist a sprightly romantic comedy on the Oedipal dilemma? As Marty McFly (Michael J. Fox), a pleasant 1985-style teenager, exclaims to his shock and chagrin, "My mom has the hots for me!" This takes some explaining. Marty's pal, an aged, eccentric scientist (Christopher Lloyd), has fashioned a De Lorean car into a functioning time machine. Suddenly, Marty finds himself in 1955, in the bedroom of the 17-year-old girl...