Word: gales
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...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...
...their effort at semantic contortion, the Republicans would classify most non-Southern Democratic candidates in the same political category as Lenin. The image, however, will not stick when applied to Clair Engle of California, Prof. Gale McGee, Wyoming; Eugene McCarthy, Minnesota; Ernest McFarland, Arizona; Thomas Dodd, Conncticut; William Proxmire, Wisconsin; and Philip A. Hart, Michigan. These Senate candidates are no more radical than the President himself. The difference between the Democrats and Mr. Eisenhower is the difference betwen vigorous, imaginative administration and stand-pat, muddle-of-the road government...
...thing, the radiant beauty of the picture continually lifts the spirit. With a grace reminiscent of the old Rajput painters, Moviemaker Ray arranges his visions of the natural world-the water flies that flicker on a pond, the lily pads that flap in a sudden gale, the rain that batters at a young girl's face-in frame after frame of temperate loveliness. Moreover, the family somehow transcends its tragedy by the very energy and fullness with which the tragedy is lived. The director has a sense of life far larger than the merely tragic. Moreover, he has humor...
...game was played under the worst possible conditions as winds of gale force at times whipped the playing field into a miniature sandstorm. As a result, the team that was playing into the wind was usually on the defensive and was forced to limit its offense to a series of breaks...