Word: gale
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...Stream. The lethal edge of the storm was a savage 50-60 knot gale. In rural Maryland, gusts blew a rescue helicopter to the ground, killing the pilot, after an attempt to airlift an expectant mother to a hospital. (Mother and baby survived.) In central New York, two people were found dead in their car 300 ft. from the warm refuge of a house that they could not even see in the white glare...
...casual observer, the heavy snow, gale winds and high tides that struck most of the Northeast last week seemed to have turned Rhode Island into a disaster area. Like homeless refugees, long lines of crying children clinging to their parents snaked through the gloom. But it was not the storm that turned out the Sunday crowds. Rhode Island was engaged in a well-planned exercise in preventive medicine...
Block Island, cut off by the gale, added twelve of a possible 40. This week make-up clinics are expected to catch several thousand more. The total will be enough to protect the state against widespread measles epidemics, though there may still be isolated cases. Health officers will then have to see to it that the 18,000 babies born annually are vaccinated soon after they are a year...
Last weekend, with five bowl games, a college all-star game and the N.F.L. championship, it was blowing a gale, but the news from CBS is that 1966 will be even bigger. The network's new two-year contract with the league calls for two Saturday-afternoon games (instead of one) and eight Sunday twin bills (instead of five...
punt return- and the Bears clawed the Packers 31-10. Minnesota was leading Chicago 37-31 with only 2 min. 18 sec left when Gale gathered in a kickoff on his own 4-yd. line, set sail up the sideline, and simply outran everybody to the goal line. Against the New York Giants last week, Sayers demonstrated the perfect way to run one of pro foot ball's prettiest plays: the halfback option. In the first quarter he started around end, stopped dead in his tracks, and flipped a pass to End Dick Gordon...