Word: gales
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Mayday, Mayday." The storm warnings that flew Lake Michigan's length changed that night into "whole gale" warnings. Winds from the southwest gathered speed, rose to 40, 50, then 60 m.p.h. The Bradley beat its way through the mounting waves into the next day and the dusk. By then, the heavy seas were surging with 30-ft. waves, smashing at the 31-year-old vessel. In the pilot house. First Mate Elmer Fleming, 43, heard a thud. He spun around and looked toward the stern. The vessel was sagging aft of midships. Fleming made for the radiotelephone and cried...
...unbeatable in the past but barred by the Constitution from running again in 1960. Going up to Capitol Hill in January is a Congress dominated by Democrats as it has not been since 1937. There seemed a good chance that the strong Democratic winds of 1958 might blow at gale force in 1960, carrying The Man Who all the way to 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue...
...strong southwest wind made playing conditions almost impossible as the team against the gale invariably had to go on the defensive. Several times, a player would get a good kick off into the wind, only to watch it come to a dead stop in mid air and fall about ten feet from where it was kicked...
...gale front moved in fast from the Pacific, lashing the waves at the dark flanks of the mountains of the Alexander Archipelago jutting out of the sea. The DC-6C Golden Nugget dropped out of the clouds, lumbered only a few hundred feet above the water, slipped, wheels-down, past Mendenhall Glacier and landed at Juneau. From the dripping plane stepped Vice President Richard Nixon, his wife and daughters, "Tricia," 12, and Julie, 10. Pat Nixon explained why the girls were there: "We figure this is an educational trip. They've been studying about Alaska." The Vice President...
Wyoming: New York Liberal Eleanor Roosevelt has conducted a national fund-raising drive for Wyoming University History Professor Gale McGee, 43, against Republican Senator Frank Barrett, 65, but the odds are that Barrett, backed by Wyoming's conservative oil, cattle and sheep men, will be winner...