Word: packed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Just after 10 a.m., with no warning, not even the groan of the floe's straining under the combined pressure of wind and current, the ice pack begins to separate from the shore and starts drifting out into the lake. The movement is almost imperceptible. A few fishermen notice that their lines are no longer hanging vertically, but most assume that is due to currents under the ice pack...
...chief considers totally inadequate rescue support. "What the hell's one 14-ft. boat and five guys going to do in a five-mile area?" he storms. Verb also believes the ice break was caused by a Coast Guard cutter that carved a channel in the ice pack 15 miles offshore on its way to take samples at the Davis-Besse nuclear power station cooling-water outlet. Says he: "It don't take a smart individual to figure it out. If you go down and cut a 40-ft. path through the lake, and you get an offshore...
Next morning the wind changes. The temperature drops. The fractured ice pack begins to knit together again. If that freezing north wind keeps blowing the lake may harden up enough for Chuck to get out on the ice again and drive his Datsun pickup back to shore. Chief Verb thinks he "hasn't a hope in hell," though the cars and trucks are still on the floe...
...point the ECAC's hottest team, Yale will follow Maine into Bright Center tomorrow night. The Bulldogs are in the midst of a losing streak (including a 5-4 overtime loss to Maine last week) but their mid-season dash to the top of the Ivy pack has provided them with the cushion of a 7-7 league mark (5-0 in the Ivies...
...factor may have been the recent conversion to metric distances, which automatically rendered all standing GBC records obsolete. Another was the British invasion of two world-class B.U. imports who combined to win six different events, often finishing one-two well out in front of the rest of the pack...