Word: wave
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...auxiliary schooner Kangaroo, in Tangier and set sail for the Bahamas. A strong southwest gale was rising as the vessel rounded Cape Cantin off the Moroccan coast. The wind, heavy laden with desert sand, seized the yacht, drove it inshore and dashed it on the reefs. A surging wave flung a steward overboard to his death. Another knocked Claude's French maid Cecile to the deck. McEvoy's crewmen picked her up and lashed her to a mast for safety, but a moment later the wind tore her loose, and she was washed away...
...yards of the beach when he looked back and saw his pretty wife in trouble. While Morocco tribesmen shouted from the beach, the playboy-millionaire turned seaward once again. The effort was too much. Just as he reached his wife, Freddy's strength gave out. A great wave engulfed and drowned them both...
...respite was the tall of a tropical heat wave that hit the South last week. But since Monday, the high pressure warm front has been eplaced by a low, cold one which is now chasing all the zephyrs north...
...with long, flashing carrings, who was striding toward the microphone at the edge of the platform. The orchestra struck up a jaunty melody and there was a song about marching on. The audience joined in on the second stanza and a hand stuck out over the balcony to wave time...
Such discussions will broaden their scope when the Worldwide Broadcasting Company starts broadcasting some of them on short wave next year. WRUL, WHDH, and several networks have already broadcast many Council programs...