Word: gales
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...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...
...fire when a stove turned over, an anchor was lost, the sailing gear fouled. To save themselves and the boat, Ann and Frank worked themselves to exhaustion. For a while, Frank went out of his mind and his wife had to handle him and the ship through a smashing gale. Even after the Reliance was battered into helplessness, the Davisons refused help from passing ships, hoped to make a small port from which they could slip out when the weather cleared...
...feet before they could be buried. The living crouched in sandpits near the beach, and there-without strength to move the men who died beside them, with little food except for sea otters and seals that they were able to kill, open to all weathers, and to winds of gale force-spent the whole of an Arctic winter...