Word: gusts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...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...
...British would not assume leadership of Western Europe. The Schuman plan-the most important act of Western statesmanship since the launching of the Marshall Plan-was a totally unexpected assertion that France could and would assume the leadership. It swept into the brains of Western policymakers like a gust of fresh wind into a musty study long unaired. It gave genuine promise that the idea of Western European integration would finally emerge from the realm of dreamers and talkers into regions as real as coal and steel...
...spent most of their waking hours planning escapes and digging tunnels; with the help of detection devices the camp guards found the tunnels and headed off the escapes almost every time.* But one spring day Prisoner John Clinton watched a sheet of newspaper hop the camp fence in a gust of wind and got an idea for an escape plan that worked...