Word: squalling
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...Surplus Property Board. They were Connecticut's ex-Governor Robert A. Hurley, 49, and Lieut. Colonel Edward Hellman Heller, 44, multimillionaire member of one of San Francisco's first families, who resigned seven directorships to join the Army. Fifteen minutes after the names reached the Hill, the squall broke...
...deck with our legs and arms crossed as well as our fingers".) She "filed her nails over and over again", twice almost to the quick-once when eight Jap warships steamed parallel to their course, again when a Jap cruiser chased them for miles, raced them into a rain squall that saved them by folding them in blackness. They just made it to a friendly port, for as they pulled dockside a piston cracked; their motors wouldn't have turned another time...
...ideal torpedo weather. The high tropic moon flaunted itself above masses of gauzy clouds. During these nights death passed the ships so close that we could hear 'the beating of his wings.' Some nights we had the advantage of black storms but even in dense rain and squall, weirdly lit by lightning, the Japanese snoopers sought us. One torpedo plane found us and tried to hit our flanks...
...competition of the meet was highly complicated by a northwestern squall which capsized Dartmouth and Stevens Institute boats in the morning, but in the afternoon a semi-calm set in to make conditions passable...
...invasion point for the Allies; 3) Franco does not dare arm a population where probably 90% of his people oppose his regime. Fat Franco was still in a position to switch to the Axis if he became convinced the Allies would lose. At home he had ridden out a squall...