Word: squallings
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...junior varsity raced its final at 1:20, escaping the brunt of the rain squall. They crossed the line in a field of five. "They were racing bow-ball to bow-ball with UConn for second place for 2000 meters, and they just lost by a foot or so at the finish. I was very pleased with them," Huntsman said...
...tanker to be delivered to the Onassis fleet since she took over its management after the death of her father, Aristotle Onassis. The 275,000-ton ship, which earlier had undergone successful sea trials, headed from Brest on her maiden voyage on Jan. 24 and ran into a sudden squall. Then the ship's engines inexplicably quit, leaving it to drift in 60-m.p.h. gusts; the 30-man crew dropped two anchors but the anchor chains snapped. So the voyage covered only about 35 miles, ending against the rocks of the island of Ushant. There the tanker rests, sinking...
...first three quarters of yesterday's contest with Williams soaking in the rays at the Business School Field and passively nursing a one-or two-goal lead. But when a tempestuous Ephman squad blew three quick tallies past Crimson crease-keeper Jim Michelson, Harvard responded with a scoring squall of its own, en route to a 15.9 victory...
...work against its larger structure-Pisan Romanesque architecture, for instance, in which the complicated inlays and bands of black-and-white marble conspire to deny the overall shape of a fagade. This crystallized itself for her one day in Venice in 1960, as she watched a violent rain squall sweeping across the inlaid pavement of a piazza. The drops, filming the surface with water splashes, broke up the stone pattern, returning it briefly to chaos and instability. Could this breakup not be given an equivalent as painting? It could; and that sense of disturbed equilibrium within what looks like...
...part because this year for the first time a delegation from the International Yacht Racing Union was checking to see that the complex 12-meter yachting rules were upheld. On the eve of the first race, Courageous was declared legal, and Brian Leary, Southern Cross syndicate manager, put the squall behind him. "Listen," he said, "the Americans have pasted Courageous stickers all over the inside of our boat...