Word: storming
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...midge dives and misses, by a matter of yards, of feet, and sprouts its fierce little explosion of utterly useless death. In his last seconds of life what must be in the mind of the Kamikaze flyer who succeeds or of the flyer who fails? Flak, a great storm of it, for what seems like minutes in a continuous shot, searches after a retreating plane, and at last connects. The plane comes down streaming flame. Another, that seems unhit, comes abruptly to pieces in midair. A heavy suicide plane with one wing gone, hurtles over & over with sickly oafishness...
...complaint (couched in 7,000 words of dialectic diatribe): Browder, by dissolving the U.S. Communist Party and setting up the Communist Political Association, had led his followers into heresy. He had suggested that socialism and capitalism can get along together. From the day of the Duclos barrage a bitter storm raged around Kansas-born Earl Browder's hapless head...
...noon fog that hung over Huron's southern tip promised trouble. But for the first few hours there was only an innocent breeze to nudge the racers along the 243-mile course from Port Huron to Mackinac Island. Shortly after midnight, the storm swooped down from the northeast. Freakish gusts hit the fleet headon, built mountains of water that swirled 20 feet high...
...them was the teak-decked, 56-ft. cutter Blitzen (once owned by Tobacconist Dick Reynolds). Shortly after her nine-man Detroit crew finished beefing over losing an hour by changing to a storm mainsail, most of them got seasick. The crews of the other three racers got sick first, and never did get their storm mains...
Through the brunt of the storm, the well-clad Blitzen made seven to eight knots, at a cost of three jib sheets. With heavy seas still running at dawn and the boat heeling at 45°, Co-Owner Ernie Grates took a sailor's chance: to save a spar, he shinnied 50 perilous feet aloft to replace lost pins in a spreader. (Co-Owner Murray Knapp, who is cook and bottle washer, distinguished himself by being beaned with a flying frying...