Word: gales
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...long, soggy peninsula where Ponce de Leon once sought the fountain of youth and Wilson Mizner in the 19203 ordained his palaces of pleasure, winds of change are stirring with gale force. Florida, ending one of its balmiest winters in history, last week greeted the spread of spring across the North with remarkable equanimity. Once the northward exodus of tourists in the springtime rated with the hurricanes as a natu ral catastrophe, inevitably followed by a summer-long slump. Now Florida is the focus of a permanent population shift that has made it the fastest-growing state in the Union...
Braced against the roll of his little Navy supply ship T-AKL 17, Skipper Sixto Mangual stared at the soft glow of a radarscope. In the center, a ragged splash of light reflected the "sea return," the radar echo bouncing back from the vicious waves of the gale-roiled Atlantic. Beyond the sea return-twelve miles away by the scale of the scope-a smaller blob of light pinpointed the position where Texas Tower 4,* a man-made Air Force radar island, was riding the storm. Suddenly, silently, the tower echo disappeared. Beyond the sea return there was only...
...choicest sour grapes: those beastly aggressive, filthy rich Americans. Such regional decoctions ordinarily do not travel well, but this one is conveyed to the U.S. public by Gary Grant, who could pour the stuff in a hair net, cross the North Atlantic in a rowboat during a polar gale, and never lose a bubble...
...since 1727, when records began, had Britain suffered a wetter summer. When it came time for the heavy fall rains, the soggy earth could take no more.As gale after gale swept over nearly every county in England and Wales, the floods seeped out onto 150 main roads, bringing traffic to a standstill. Near Dover, a chunk of the famed white cliffs fell onto the railway lines. Swans swam placidly in the streets of (of all places) Bath. Last week it was still raining. Noted London's Evening Standard sourly: "The tanned appearance of many Londoners is not sunburn...
...Houses to serve with previously elected Class Marshals on the Class Committee. Those selected were Roger A. Snyder, of Adams and Upper Derby, Pa.; John T. Daley, of Dudley and West Roxbury; Richard K. Ellingboe, of Dunster and Wilmington, Del.; Douglas E. Buie, of Kirkland and Norfolk, Va.; Christopher Gale, of Eliot and Webster Groves, Mo.; Larry J. Hohit, of Leverett and Greenwood, Ind.; Thomas H. Moss, of Lowell and Cleveland, Ohio; Claude E. Welch of Quincy and Belmont; and Eliot T. Putnam, Jr., of Winthrop and Dedham...