willies
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Wall Street long ago got acclimated to the oratorical williwaws blowing north from Congress.
From Time Magazine Archive
Over such ritualistic williwaws did last week's impasse develop.
From Time Magazine Archive
Fay has reacted to such williwaws by shopping serenely for mooring space in Honolulu.
From Time Magazine Archive
Among the fogbanks and williwaws of the Aleutians, Bering's flagship, the St. Peter, wandered for five months without true bearings.
From Time Magazine Archive
On the 3d, the gale was most violent, and the williwaws became short hurricanes, in some of which the ship drifted and fouled her anchors.
From Narrative of the surveying voyages of His Majesty's ships Adventure and Beagle, between the years 1826 and 1836 Volume I. - Proceedings of the First Expedition, 1826-1830 by Fitzroy, Robert
