Word: beaches
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...temperatures turned comparatively toasty. Minneapolis warmed to a high of 29°, Chicago 30°, Atlanta 55°. But then the Great Winter of '77 exhaled again, and the Big Freeze was back. Minneapolis shivered in a low of -8°, Chicago -13°, Atlanta -18°, Miami Beach 54°. Worse yet, another blizzard howled across the Midwest, and even colder blasts of arctic air-carrying temperatures as frigid as 40° below normal -were expected to dive southward during the weekend across much of the U.S. east of the Rockies...
COURRÈGES spilled out a whole locker room of sweat pants, parkas, tennis dresses, beach clothes and mechanics' coveralls. In contrast he showed a jersey dress that glows in the dark and a line of sexy swimsuits, their two pieces placed vertically, not horizontally, and held together by thin strings on the sides...
...rain turned white? Startled millionaires wintering in their baronial mansions in West Palm Beach, Fla., peered closer last week at the miracle that was falling from the skies and discovered-could it be?-yes, the substance was snow, the first ever reported there. Since mid-November, pedestrians in Dallas, unaccustomed to such hazards, have been slipping on sleet-slicked sidewalks. Meanwhile, a series of blizzards has smothered Buffalo this winter with an astonishing 126.6 in. of snow...
Still, it is the brutal and unrelenting cold-the Big Freeze -that has transformed the inevitable grousing about the weather into personal agony and national hardship. The furies of January have been unrelenting. Alltime low temperatures were recorded last week in Cincinnati (-25), Miami Beach ( + 32), Palm Beach ( + 27). Single-day records for the date were set in New York City (-1); Dayton (-21); and Lynchburg, Va. ( - 8). At -19, Chicago experienced its coldest day in this century. Peoria, Ill. ( - 25), had not been so cold since 1884. In Rice Lake, Wis., the temperature plunged...
...water pipes burst in Little Rock, Ark., one resident remarked, "My basement is flooded and my furnace doesn't work -but we're going to have an ice-skating party in my basement tonight." In Fort Walton Beach, Fla., Circuit Court Judge Clyde...