Last year, in monsoon-like conditions, hard, pelting rain, near gale winds, puddles dotting the field, United rallied from two goals down in Boston to beat Los Angeles 3-2 in overtime.
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The Lyle gun exploded just before 3 a . m ., further spreading the fire and breaking windows, thereby allowing the near gale force winds to enter the ship and fan the flames.
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Since 1995, it had been stored in a closed museum near Gales Creek, Oregon, known as the Trolley Park ( and formally as the Oregon Electric Railway Museum until that museum moved in 1996 ).
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Wind that swirled to near gale force in Thursday's pro-am calmed on Friday, and the light breeze and temperature in the 80s combined with soft greens to make the 6, 963-yard ( 6, 336-meter ) course vulnerable to some low scores.
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During the last of April and the first three weeks of May, however, there had hardly been a day when gales or near gales were not coming from some quarter of the compass, and I have reached a stage in which I prefer to do my fly-fishing under reasonable conditions.
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The day was dark and dank, a stiff near gale from the south hurling good-sized combers against the outer beach of Martha's Vineyard Island, when, with Nelson Sigelman and me on board, Cooper Gilkes nosed his four-wheel-drive vehicle out onto the strand and headed west toward Wasque Rip on Chappaquiddick.
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Cyclone Gamede remained a broad system, and by February 24 it produced winds of near gale force up to 670 km ( 415 mi ) southeast of its center; later in the day, it passed about 300 km ( 190 mi ) north of R�union, its closest point of approach to the island.
