Word: gales
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...food, a radio, a small stove and warm clothes. Late that night National Park Service rangers worked their way toward the summit in 20-below-zero weather. Hodgkin said he sat in the cockpit, struggling to keep his frail craft from flipping over in the 70-mile-an-hour gale that howled over the peak. "That plane was-flying tied down," he added. "If those tie ropes had been longer, I'd have soared up like a kite...
...Navy system for salvaging submarines. It consists of sinking pontoons on either side of a sunken vessel, attaching chains under it, and pumping the air from the ship and pontoons. Captain Ellsberg said that the operation was simplified by the fact that the U.S.S. Monitor foundered in a gale, and was presumably undamaged...
...Monitor's famed Civil-War duel with the Merrimac took place off Newport News, Virginia. She foundered in a gale off Cape Hatteras on December...
...Butler wound up the debate for the Tories. He said that the Labor ministers were "clinging . . . like huddled and bedraggled limpets to every rock, exposed to every wind and gale that blows . . . Finally, they will be swept away by one of the most human of all elemental forces-the desire to eat and the desire to live...
...gone off to the Brussels conference with the denunciation of Republican Senators howling coldly in his ears; he had come back into a gale still raging, to a country split over foreign policy and filled with demands that he resign...