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...Scene, but you may live to see our Country flourish, as it will amazingly and rapidly after the War is over. Like a Field of young Indian Corn, which long Fair weather and Sunshine had enfeebled and discolour'd, and which in that weak State, by a Thunder Gust of violent Wind, Hail and Rain seem'd to be threatend with absolute Destruction; yet the Storm being once past, it recovers fresh Verdure, shoots up with double Vigour, and delights the Eye not of its Owner only, but of every observing Traveller...
Dream of Danger. Pushed along by winds up to 30 knots, strongest ever recorded in a trans-Pacific race (the Los Angeles Weather Bureau had predicted the weakest breezes yet), the Morning Star made the most of every gust. But her crew paid a rough price for their speed. All ports were closed against the high following seas, and sleep was almost impossible for the watch below. Boiling ahead of the trade winds, the white-hulled yacht climbed wave crests and planed down like a surfboard. The mainsail boom sliced dangerously through the sea. One night Crewman Bob Carlson dreamed...
...administration building and said: "This is Bezzerides; I'd like to have you come in." Connell did not recognize the voice, asked: "What's your wife's first name?" "Go to hell," snarled the man on the phone. Connell said it was like a williwaw, a gust of cold wind, blowing through the prison. For 26 hours after that, the prisoners were in control of Washington State Penitentiary...
...clock still ticks in the passage, the moonlight still shapes a white pool on the floor, a gust of icy wind still shakes the old house-but, often enough nowadays, the ghost that comes stalking is fresh from a textbook of modern psychiatry. Such old props as bleeding heads tucked under skeletonic elbows, or crimson stab wounds on vaporous bodies, are out of fashion. "Many modern ghosts," observes Editor Carrington in The Week End Book of Ghost Stories, "have become more human...
Once the committee has stated its purpose, it cannot then, according to Javitt's proposals, tack in a fresh direction with each gust of public interest. The testimony of all witnesses called by the committees must be "germane to the subject so stated." This would end the race between committees to subpoena a person suddenly in the news...