Word: gales
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Last week the gale broke in a whistling fury, beat around the doors of the White House, whipped in & out of WPB, OWI, OPA and many another Federal agency, chilled the neck of every power-wielding office holder. Prominent Democrats rode the crest of it, outdoing Republicans in bureau-baiting and defiance of Government-by-executive-edict...
Their craft was an eggshell hull, without spars or sails or engine, riding the gale-lashed sea. She was, you might say, like a fishing trawler with never a thing in or on her. The storm was sweeping down from the northwest and snow mingled with the icy, driven spray, blotting out the weak northern...
...which U.S. trainers would probably think insane. In 1930 naval maneuvers near Saishuto (according to a Japanese officer's article in the Spanish Revista de Aeronautica), Japan's present Commander of Combined Fleets Admiral Yamamoto, then captain of the carrier Akagi, launched 30 torpedo planes in a gale to give the men practice in heavy-weather launchings. They all launched, but not one got back to the ship...
...hove to, riding out a gale, when the hurricane struck her. For a sickening moment she lay down on her side until her masts dipped into the sea. The two men on her deck grabbed lifelines and hung on. The 3070 righted herself, rolled over the other way. Her mizzenmast carried away with a crash. The 3070 floundered on across the whooping Atlantic like a drunk on a merry-go-round...
Essentially a kicking duel, the game was filled with attempted quick kicks, some of which got only a few yards beyond the line of scrimmage because of the near-gale which blew across Soldiers Field. Although the Puritans showed some superiority in the first half, the teams were evenly matched through most of the game...