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Soon cameras flashed into position, pencils and paper appeared among the crowd, and Senator Taft began to speak. "Mr. Mayor," the Senator began, "honorable guests,...and members of Harvard University..." A gust of laughter greeted him. "I'm pleased to see that Harvard students still exercise freedom of opinion, freedom of speech...
...cold, dark, blustery winter morning, my gangling roommate took the window route with a paratrooper's magnificent form and timing precision. But a sudden gust blew the heavy dormers shut on his flying overcoat tails and left him hung corseted, pitiful and helpless against the barracks' wall, with toes inches from the ground. The streaming mass of humanity fighting for place in ranks ignored his screams, the last bugle note faded, rolls were checked and companies dismissed. Only then, officially absent from formation, did he get a helping hand. Now, 25 years later, the slightest allusion...
...this austere room last week lived an austere old man consumed by illness and by strange fires of faith. His body was so frail that it seemed as if a gust of wind could blow it over; his face was sallow and flabby, his eyes were watery, his hands trembled. Yet in this fragile frame is a will tougher than the rock of the Elburz Mountains and more inflammable than the oil of Abadan. A month ago, scarcely anyone in the West had ever heard of Mohammed Mossadeq; by last week, what he said and did could powerfully affect...
...University's Blue Hill Meteorological Observatory recorded the highest wind gust during the weekend disturbances since the 1938 all-time high. Wind meters climbed to 94 miles per hour as compared with 186, 12 years ago. Winds also reached a sustained speed of 67 miles per hour, highest since...
...Chamonix group was close to a refuge hut at Grands-Mulets, more than halfway up, when Leader Payot untied himself from the main party to move a little ahead. A sudden gust swept him over a crevasse and buried him under 20 feet of snow. Two hours later a walkie-talkie notice of his death filtered down to his wife and two children in the valley. By radio the word came back from the French army ordering all men off the mountain...