Word: gale
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...clutch hands and to praise needy candidates. In Montana she described Senate Majority Leader Mike Mansfield as one of Lyndon's "oldest and most trusted friends." In Utah she told the folks that Senator Frank Moss is "always watching out for Utah." In Wyoming she spoke of Senator Gale McGee: "Everybody knows Senator McGee-he's your home folks." And in Idaho she said: "We in Washington have heard much about Idaho from Senator Frank Church and his wife Bethine and Congressman Ralph Harding and his wife Willa...
Five times a week, Aerolineas Argentinas braves gale-force winds-often 70 m.p.h.-to deliver passengers and cargo to Ushuaia, the world's southernmost city, on the tip of the continent. More fearsome are the 20,000-ft. Andes, stretching the length of Latin America. On the 30-minute hop from La Paz to one remote mountain town, pilots of Bolivia's Lloyd Aéreo line regularly thread their way through clouded-in peaks with the copilot calling out seconds on his trusty wristwatch. And then, there are the airports. More than 80% of Latin America...
Sailing in gale-force winds, the Crimson barely edged out arch-rival Coast Guard Academy for second place in the New England Championships and earned an invitation to the North Americans, which will be held at the University of British Columbia the weak of June...
Both actions followed a gale of White House phone calls to Capitol Hill. As Lyndon Johnson's admirers saw it, the President deserved all the credit for breaking up the legislative ice jam. Others, however, insisted that Lyndon's poking and prodding had little to do with it, that President Kennedy had already laid the groundwork for congressional action. The truth lay somewhere in between...
...Tony Lema, 29: the $40,500 Bing Crosby National, by three strokes, at Pebble Beach, Calif. Drenching rain and gale-force winds played havoc with scores. Arnold Palmer took a 9 on a par-3 hole. Bob Rosburg 6-putted on one hole, and Bob Harrison scored an even 100 for the last 18. "My sense of humor saved me," said "Champagne Tony," who collected $5,800 and promptly threw a bubble-water party for the press...