Word: gales
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...What are you living for!" the playboy bellows, and drags him off for a spin in his sports car. The young man tries to resist but he cannot; the energy, the zest of the older man sweep him along like a leaf in a gale. Eighty, ninety, a hundred miles an hour and, mamma mia! no hands on the wheel! Two girls appear in a convertible; the playboy gives chase. The police roar after him; he flashes a government pass. Gas, cigarettes, food; the playboy orders but his companion pays. The young man objects to being used...
...Although gale warnings and a full hurricane watch are now in effect from Block Island to Provincetown, the Boston area will not be severely affected by the storm. Winds here may exceed 45 m.p.h. but the medium to heavy rainfall should end by tonight. Skies will be partially clear on Wednesday...
...Three Knapp Trophy sailing competition was blown out at Yale yesterday by nearly gale force winds. But, before cancelling the meet, officials attempted to get the first race underway in the heavy winds...
Like a ballerina bereft of her balance, Hurricane Arlene whirled on a curious course through the Atlantic to open the 1963 storm season. Her wild dance subsided to a gale-force pirouette, then suddenly spun back to hurricane size at week's end. Though she finally seemed headed out to sea, Arlene's sisters* may even now be waiting in the wings. But when they begin their destructive spin toward the U.S. East Coast, they will be met by a group of storm-killing scientists who hope to learn how to stop them...
...said the weary oceanographer, is every bit as tough as "standing in a gale and fog on top of a building a mile and a half high and trying to lower a pingpong ball on a string into a tomato can on the sidewalk...