Word: gale
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...tiedown cables holding the planes snapped like twine, and the wind whipped the 139-ton craft about like Piper Cubs. As the big blow struck, a C-47 was ready to take off. The pilot saw what was coming, and "flew" at full power into the teeth of the gale. The plane stood almost motionless above the field. In Carswell's control tower, the wind indicator hand shot up, indicated 91 m.p.h. Then part of the anemometer blew away...
...starting his third season here, launched into a discussion of the removal of the steel stand. "I'll have to study the effect of wind in the Stadium," he claimed. "Can't tell what it'll be like, but it might be like Palmer Stadium at Princeton--real gale down there...
...seldom equaled in Western sculpture; the Oriental Apollo at right, riding a rooster into the dawn light, is no less intense in his calmness. Both ceramics share the one quality that Chinese artists have always considered of first importance: a linear fluency like that of clouds driven before a gale...
...blowing a gale. The wind shrieked over New Hampshire's Mount Washington, wrapping its 6,288-ft. summit in swirling fog. Thick ice glazed the mountain's sheer headwall. From Pinkham Notch, down in the valley, a line of black dots inched upward along two rows of red flags. The dots were ski fans, out to see the world's most dangerous ski race, "the American Inferno." The course runs in a four-mile drop from the summit over the 1,000-ft. headwall, through Tuckerman's Ravine and down a narrow wooded trail to Pinkham...
...diverse war materials, including a large number of optical sights and parts of V-2 rocket bombs," all made illegally in West Germany. Fearing that the French might learn of this if the Flying Enterprise put into Brest, the U.S. Defense Department ordered Captain Carlsen to weather out the gale, and sent two destroyers to take off the war cargo. They lost the ship because they were not as efficient at salvage as the Russians...