Word: gales
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Last week Angelo was back in the press section of the presidential jet for a stretch of hard campaigning that within two days encountered gale winds in Montana, a sleet storm in Wyoming, and heat of 102° F. in Southern California. "First Ladies," says Angelo, "are no longer treated as perishable commodities...
...self-steering gear snapped under the hull. "There was only one thing to do," Colas later told the London Observer, sponsor of the race. "I fixed myself to the boat with a line and went over the side. The water was intensely cold. It was blowing Force 8 [gale winds of up to 40 knots], and the waves were about 12 ft. high. But it had to be done. I had either to repair the boat or abandon the race...
...Francis Scott Key could not possibly have seen the American flag waving over Fort McHenry on that day in 1814 when he wrote The Star-Spangled Banner. According to Librarian P. William Filby of the Maryland Historical Society, it was raining and it would have taken a gale to move the heavy banner. "What Key probably saw was a flag wrapped soggily around a pole." Concludes Filby: "Key didn't come running ashore crying 'Chaps, I've just produced the national anthem.' " He fitted his new poem to the tune of an English drinking song because...
...writes well about the daily staples of such a trip-neighborly whales and nautical loneliness, gale-force blasts and the odd flying fish landing on deck just in time for breakfast. As skipper she found settling into routine at sea like settling into a new London flat. With no suggestion of gush, she conveys flashes of femininity, reflecting, for instance, on the psychological therapy of perfume even alone at sea. There comes a moment when the disheartened sailor seriously considers turning back but does not, in part because she could just hear those consoling male voices saying "Jolly good effort...
...Business School's admissions office has not had any contact with the Prince, Gale D. Merseth, director of Admissions, said yesterday...