Word: gales
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...championship, the junior had to go through some stiff competition. In her first round match, Dragomirescu defeated Farliegh Dickerson's Rachel Gale, 6-1, 6-2. She went on to captue straight-set decisions over Richmond's Rebecca Cucuru, 6-3, 6-3, and Brown's Ann Fritzpatrick...
...Gulf Coast of Texas had been put on alert as Gilbert headed toward landfall. From Brownsville to Biloxi, Miss., people sought shelter from the storm, in many places clogging highways and emptying supermarket shelves. Houston, 50 miles inland, shuddered at the prospect of its glimmering skyscrapers swaying in the gale-force winds. About a quarter of the 60,000 residents of Galveston Island headed for higher ground, leaving boarded-up windows and fortified houses. In Brownsville, a dirt-poor border town of 110,000, those who could afford to fled inland. But since half the residents are below the poverty...
...mates, the Captain shouts into the gale. Not dead yet. Hold tight. His cronies link their arms and close their ranks...
Alpine Skiing: Johnson, although injured, will lead the American men's team, along with Gale "Tiger" Shaw and Felix McGrath. But the foreign competition, led by Switzerland's Pirmin Zurbriggen, may be too tough for the Americans...
...Israeli rule. "But this patience will not be repeated by the new generation," he adds, choosing his words with care lest he be arrested by the Israelis. Sheik Yasin, 51, is a spiritual leader of the Islamic fundamentalist movement in Gaza and thus a prime force behind the religious gale that has recently fanned the flames of unrest in the occupied territories...