Word: gales
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...Byrd was yodeling for Johnson and against Kennedy through his West Virginia mountains last week. "For two years I've been talking, Lyndon up out in my state," says Nevada's Alan Bible. "He'd be a honey of a President," glows Wyoming's Gale McGee. Washington's Warren Magnuson furloughed his able administrative assistant, Irvin Hoff, for a brief forward observer's mission through the Rocky Mountain and Pacific Coast states to seek out the delegates and discover the arcane pockets of potential Johnson strength. Nor are the Johnson enthusiasts restricted...
...Annunzio began his unlikely career by being born. not. as he claimed, in a bark at sea during a gale, but in the half-pagan, half-bigoted province of Abruzzi...
...Supreme Court chamber was turned into a Senate dormitory. Lady Bird Johnson showed up with a fresh change of pajamas for the majority leader. Maine's Margaret Smith posed daintily for photographers as she tucked herself into a cot (fully clothed) for the night. Wyoming's Gale McGee hauled in a sleeping bag. Wisconsin's Bill Proxmire got himself photographed in his skivvies. At first it almost seemed fun: a visit to the Senate gallery became a social must for Washington's late-evening crowds...
Sleepers Awake. In Nigeria, the cry was "FreeDOM!" and the Congolese yelled " 'depenDANCE!" Whatever its label, the spirit of self-rule was sweeping at gale force across Africa, last of the continents to awaken from the sleep of centuries...
...dust settled, the miners went back in to clear the rubble with no particular fear, for ledoma (earthquake) is a commonplace to the natives who work the Rand and Free State mines. But then, without warning, the wall along the coal seam collapsed with a roar, and a gale-force gust of wind tossed men, machinery and pit props like feathers in its wake. Ventilation fans were smashed and behind the mile-long debris most of the men lay trapped with 70 pit ponies...