Word: squalling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...trimmings of tough flying went with the water-hail, sleet, air that was rougher than an Oklahoma line squall, terrain on which (said the pilots) a bird would break his legs in a forced landing. Yet the Chungking Ferry ran almost daily, riding instruments, dodging the Jap, who came up when there were holes in the weather...
Presently the other passengers heard the sharp slap and the tiny squall. Genially Dr. Conly asked one woman for her turban, and in it he wrapped the eight-pound boy. For another day Mrs. Mohorovicic kept her newborn baby warm by snuggling him inside her lifebelt. Then a rescue ship drew alongside. The newborn child was handed up to a startled seaman. No assistance was needed for sturdy, 28-year-old Desanka Mohorovicic. She clambered up the cargo net, took a shower before she turned in. Last week, in a Norfolk, Va. hospital, she was feeling fine, getting ready...
Another time, chased by a big Jap ship, they raced into a dark rain squall. When they came out, the ship was still after them. They circled furiously, doubled back; it looked, this time, as though the game...
...eighth day Aldrich lost a finger nail when a shark nipped his hand. A leopard shark was shot before a squall left the pistol corroded. Dixon batted one shark on the nose with his fist and drove it away...
...books, the 1941 Varsity lightweights rowed the fastest Henley over the Charles on record, and that includes efforts by heavy crews. On the crest of a squall the H. H. Haines special covered the mile and five-sixteenths in 6:40, a full second under the course record set by the 1942 Freshman boat...