Word: squall
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While the Columbia crew was practicing on Wednesday a squall struck their shell and all but three men had to jump overboard to prevent the boat from sinking...
...that the running down of the press boat on that occasion (by the only man afloat who refused to obey the managers' regulations) failed to result in loss of life was little less than a miracle. Equally astonishing was the good luck of a year later, when the squall of wind forced the impatient fleet of sailboats to swoop down in the wake of the long-delayed crews, and when it seemed inevitable to those of us in the midst of it that death must also be swooping down in the darkness...