Word: gale
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...winds that spread tax fever cut across the country, the winds that fill Ronald Reagan's spreading sails as he seeks the presidency; these are the same winds that blew across America's prairies this winter, spring and summer. The gale force conservative bluster was supposed to blow away liberal senators Frank Church of Idaho, George McGovern of South Dakota, John Culver of Iowa and Birch Bayh of Indiana like so many mobile homes in the path of a tornado. But now it seems that the eye of the storm might, just might, have passed and that the winds...
Harvard's system has been "quite influential in raising the question of reforms, because the Harvard example received so much publicity," Gale Stokes, professor of history, said Monday, adding that Rice will probably need something "adapted to our needs and past experience...
...victory, after two straight losses, sent the Phillies home for Tuesday night's sixth game with a 3-2 lead in the best-of-seven game Series. They will bid for their first World Championship with ace Steve Carlton facing Kansas City's Rich Gale...
...Phillies made it 1-1 in the second when Rich Gale dealt a pair of singles to Manny Trillo and Larry Bowa, walked Bob Boone, and played a hard-hit grounder by Lonnie Smith to first as Trillo came home...
...indication of a Finn doing anything. To sit behind a Finnish contingent with one of their countrymen, say, lying sixth in the 1,500 meters, was to be given the impression, with the sailcloth whipping back against one's face, of wrestling with an errant spinnaker in a gale...