Word: gale
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Exactly what happened to the fishing boat is not known, though the 100-ft. waves of what was called the Halloween Gale were more than enough to capsize such a boat or to pitchpole it end for end. What happened to the crew is clearer, and Junger is grimly precise about the mechanics of drowning...
...Hillary Step, with Doug Hansen, a friend and client who had reached the top after two tries, and there they both died. Before that happened, Hall had radioed to his wife Jan in Christchurch, "I love you. Sleep well, my sweetheart." Fischer, too weak to descend in the gale, froze to death somewhere below. Eight others died from the storm, but of several climbers who missed Camp Four in zero visibility and huddled all night in the snow, most survived. Rescuers already at the tents did what they could to find the others, without much success...
...Chrysler's Prowler, the only American entry in the class--a convertible designed to hot-wire the Plymouth brand's low-watt image. Tom Gale, the Chrysler design chief who oversaw the $35,000 two-seater, says with a smile, "I remember when I was a kid thinking that convertibles were faster than other cars...
Nathans said that when the decision was made, weather forecasts for many of the sites where FOP trips were to take place called for gale-force winds and torrential rain...
Right about now, KELSEY GRAMMER may be regretting he ever wrote his autobiography, So Far. In it the Frasier star says he'll one day marry Tammi Baliszewski, "the gentle breeze in which I flourish today." Unfortunately, the wedding's off, and the gentle breeze is writing her own gale-force tell-all. Grammer also claims that Cerlette Lamme, whom he gallantly calls "not the neediest woman I've ever been with but needy enough," got high and lost his dog, Goose. Lamme is suing for libel and invasion of privacy. Not one to dwell on past errors, Grammer spent...