Word: scud
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Sailboats from 12 colleges will scud across the waters of the Charles River Basin this afternoon and tomorrow as New England undergraduate sailors hold their annual autumn regatta for the Schell Trophy. The winner will be in effect the fall intercollegiate sailing champion...
Arithmetic of Destruction. The Jap ships were dead ahead of them. Zeros were flashing from nearby clouds, scud streaming off their wings. Torpedo 8's plummeting craft were so low "a man could hang his hat on them." Twenty thousand eyes, thought Swede, must be watching from the decks below, ten thousand minds trying to estimate what he and his mates would do. "And there the torpedo pilot sits, throwing his plane around with both hands and both feet, his eyes flitting from enemy plane to enemy ships to target to waves to altimeter to speedometer, his brain racing...
Everybody is waiting for the first signs of winter. Up here it is goddamn cold and the wind rips down from the Black and Caspian Seas. Sometimes black clouds scud over the Caucasus. But when the wind ceases and clouds lie tranquil, then comes snow and thick rain and real cold. That is what all these men are waiting for. That, after the second front, is what the whole Soviet Union is waiting...
...southwest toward the islands of St. Pierre and Miquelon. Lieut. Commander Ralph Hickox, skipper of the elderly flush-deck destroyer Truxtun, knew he was somewhere near the end of the spit, but he could not see. The wind was blowing more than 60 miles an hour and low-flying scud dropped the visibility toward zero. The Truxtun ran aground. So did the naval supply ship Pollux. The waves, pounding in like sledgehammers to the base of a 200-ft. cliff, began to break the two ships...
Onslow Beach was whipped with rain and the breakers were capped with white when Task Force 18 began its exercises one night. On a high-topped dune "Howlin' Mad" Smith stood with his staff, scanning the sea through night glasses. Through the scud a signal light blinked in code: "Execute...