Word: gale
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...sort of pollution that made hellholes of old industrial cities such as Pittsburgh and Manchester. By the next day, thankfully, the smog had dispersed, and though that was probably because of a change in the weather, it was easy to believe that it had been blown away by the gale of optimism and self-confidence that India's leaders now routinely display. Though India's boom has been tempered by the global economic crisis, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh told the summit that he expected growth in fiscal year 2009-10 to reach 6.5% - hardly shabby - before recovering in the medium...
...second half, Harvard shifted to defend the downwind side in a rapidly rising gale. Any clearing attempts were stuffed by the winds, and Dartmouth kept the pressure on accordingly...
...calling the TV station even before the police? And how did they imagine this would end? They may have attended acting classes, but children have an acidic honesty that has a way of dissolving even the most artful adult deceptions. Storm chasers? They have no idea the gale forces coming their way. (Read a brief history of do-it-yourself ballooning...
Reaper, Grim • continuing insatiability of for celebrity blood claims Karl Malden, • and Harve Presnell, • and Fred Travelena, • and Billy Mays, • and Gale Storm, • and Sky Saxon, whose band The Seeds, had the great song "Pushin' Too Hard...
...France Flight 447, a twin-engine A330, took off from Galeão International Airport in Rio de Janeiro at 7:30 p.m. local time and was last heard from three hours later, when the cockpit crew radioed to tell Brazilian air controllers that the plane would enter Senegalese airspace at 11:20 p.m., according to a statement from Aeronautica, the body in charge of Brazilian airspace. (No message from Senegalese airspace was ever received.) Speaking at a press conference, Air France CEO Pierre-Henri Gourgeon said the plane encountered stormy weather and strong turbulence at 11 p.m. and shortly...