Word: gust
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...read his statement to the Committee in a detached, hesitant manner, as if the story were a new and strange one which he had never heard before. Bringing the now familiar events up to the fateful "00:30 [12:30 a. m.] 4, April," he read: "A very sharp gust struck the ship. It seemed to be much more severe than any I have ever experienced in that it was exerted so suddenly ... a maximum force in two or three seconds. 1 noted immediately that the lower rudder-control rope had carried away." Then the upper control rope went. Then...
Glass-"Little banks!" Little corner grocerymen who get together $10,000 or $15,000 and then invite the deposits of their community and then at the very first gust of disaster topple over and ruin their depositors! What we need in this country are real banks and real bankers...
...clambered over the airplane's wing and into the forward cockpit. Pilot Harrigan reached up, jerked a lever, disengaged his plane-hook from the trapeze bar. At the same instant he gunned his motor, nosed his plane down in a power dive to clear the airship before an upward gust could possibly cause a foul. Then he headed for Lakehurst where another plane waited to fly Admiral Moffett to Washington...
...Being stood on her nose at the Lakehurst high mooring mast by a sudden gust of wind, and suffering...
Notified of the Governor's gust in Pittsburgh (whose Mayor Charles Howard Kline is facing a fine and jail sentence for malfeasance), surprised Samuel Seabury promptly promised to send the transcript and "analysis" of Mayor Walker's testimony this week to Albany...