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  • Another gale-force wailer who smudges the line between anger and sadness like so many tears through Revlon eyeliner?

    Looking ahead: Five new artists to look for in 2011 Chris Richards 2011

  • The bureau rated the chances of a cyclone - which could lash the coast with gale-force winds and torrential rains - at between 20 percent and 50 percent.

    Southeast Australia Braces For More Floods By ROHAN SULLIVAN 2011

  • Twenty-foot waves and gale-force winds compelled cancellation of meetings aboard the Soviet cruiser Slava; instead they were held on the elegantly refurbished cruise liner Maxim Gorky, safely docked in Valletta Harbor.

    Between War and Peace Col. Matthew Moten 2011

  • Meanwhile, in the cold gale-force winds of the South Atlantic, a desperate rescue is underway by a small group of determined islanders.

    Rocky Kistner: A World Away From the Gulf, Penguins Fight Oil Too Rocky Kistner 2011

  • Meanwhile, in the cold gale-force winds of the South Atlantic, a desperate rescue is underway by a small group of determined islanders.

    Rocky Kistner: A World Away From the Gulf, Penguins Fight Oil Too Rocky Kistner 2011

  • Forecasters said the typhoon's cloud band was 372 miles in diameter, and that the seasonal monsoon rains it is enhancing would continue to drench most of Luzon and generate gale-force winds that will result in rough seas in the northern and central Philippines over the weekend.

    Typhoon-triggered landslide kills 2 in Philippines 2011

  • We have had two home games this year – one against West Brom, where we had a gale-force wind which nearly led to the game being called off, and now we have had snow and bad conditions here," said Pulis, who confirmed that the Potters forward Cameron Jerome had come off in the first half due to a dead leg. "

    Martin O'Neill hails the progress of Sunderland winger James McClean 2012

  • They don't sound like the Tubes, but they couple the same gale-force energy and confidence to startlingly original material most of it by rising-star leader Ben Cottrell that uses big band traditions while radically modernising them.

    This week's new live music 2012

  • Forecasters said the typhoon's cloud band was 372 miles in diameter, and that the seasonal monsoon rains it is enhancing would continue to drench most of Luzon and generate gale-force winds that will result in rough seas in the northern and central Philippines over the weekend.

    Typhoon-triggered landslide kills 2 in Philippines 2011

  • Meanwhile, in the cold gale-force winds of the South Atlantic, a desperate rescue is underway by a small group of determined islanders.

    Rocky Kistner: A World Away From the Gulf, Penguins Fight Oil Too Rocky Kistner 2011

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