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furious fifties

n. The area of the earth between 50 and 60 degrees south, prone to strong winds.

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Furious fifties

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For the first thousand miles of its journey, the Salvation was hurried along by the winds of the Screaming Sixties, Furious Fifties, and Roaring Forties, the eastward-flowing circumpolar current, and of course, our fleet of oceangoing tugs.