Word: squalling
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...said that the first real downpouring rains came to Wimbledon in 1968 with the professionals, and prior to that there was a sunny expression, "Wimbledon weather," meaning calm cloudless days. On D-day in June 1944, as he pushed off with the invasion forces in a fierce, howling squall, Tinling can remember saying, "Thank heaven we don't have a Wimbledon this year," and thinking that was lucky. -By Tom Callahan
...this Southern squall is a 242-sq.-mi. area at the tip of the Florida peninsula known as the East Everglades. Like Everglades National Park, just to the west, it is still unspoiled, filled with palmettos and sawgrass, marshes and wildlife. And that is the problem. Eager to escape Florida's crowded, condo-filled coast, the homesteaders have picked one of the state's most ecologically fragile regions, essential to the environmental well-being of all of South Florida...
...fast to a whale. Their first intimation of the loss was the boatsteerers looking in direction of the ship, cried out to the Captain "Look! Look! What ails the ship, she is upsetting." It had the appearance at first sight of a ship caught in a sudden and hard squall or gust of wind with the sails flying in all directions and the vessel nearly turned upon one side. They lost no time in disengaging themselves...
...failure of Man, Woman and Child lies not in its style but its story. Full of dramatic and meaningful scenes that (without giving away and surprises) add up to nothing, they fizzle like a summer squall over Cape Cod. As he proved in the hockey and snow sequences in Love Story, Segal has a sharp eye for powerful movie scenes. Bob & Sheila & Jessica & Paula & Jean-Claude peaks with Bob and Jean-Claude at Arthur Fiedler's fiftieth anniversary July Fourth concert. As they sit in a drenching downpur eating sandwiches, the Old Man throws the Pops into the 1812 Overature...
...third day of the week-long journey, which led Justin and his guide Kamik from the settlement of Nanook to the village of Hooka, a typical Christmastime squall blew off MacInnis Bay. Visibility shrunk to zero and the two men could hardly see each other...