Word: gust
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Long Island, the hard-driven anemometer on the Vanderbilt yacht Vara registered, a windspeed of 91 m.p.h. before it self-destructed. The bell of Sag Harbor's Old Whalers' Church tolled crazily until one last lifting gust, like a petulant child with a toy, tore the steeple completely off its base and dashed it to the ground. In New London, Conn., the element of fire joined the element of wind, raging from 4:30 that afternoon until 11 in the evening. And then there was water-"water, water everywhere," as one witness remembered. By the time the last...
...Faith. But none of that could dispel the pain. Said Housewife Mary Lawrence: "I feel for parents who have no religious faith. What can you do if you love a child and then lose him? You have to take your strength from somewhere else." Said State Highway Patrolman Dan Gust: "I've seen a lot of accidents. But when you get right down to it, you get hurt just the same as anybody else." Gust's son, Steven, 17, had died in the crash...
...strong winds bothered Radcliffe all weekend, and caused cancellation of several races on Saturday. In one gust, an empty boat without its sail up got loose from the dock and capsized in a puff...
...With a gust of wind and a definite air of super-sophistication, Jacqueline Onassis swept into the Harvard Faculty Club at 7 p.m. last night, joining the other members of the Institute of Politics Advisory Committee...
Trained from childhood to fight and hunt, a steppes nomad was accustomed to using his eyes to a degree unimaginable among modern city dwellers. Every twitch of a deer's alarmed head, every gathering of muscle, gust of wind or sprouting of vegetation could be a clue in the work of survival. So it is not surprising that Scythian art?both the objects they made for themselves in the 7th-6th centuries B.C., and the ones they later had made for them by Greek metalsmiths?was supremely visual: accurate observation combined with an amazing clarity of design. The panther hammered...