Word: blanket
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Never before in this century had the nation been so much at the mercy of its weather. Man, animal and machine in many parts of the country were immobilized under a heavy blanket of snow and ice. A dire shortage of natural gas -long predicted and long ignored -forced the closing of hundreds of schools and businesses and drove tens of thousands of people out of their unheated homes...
CODDLE YOUR CAR. Cars get the blahs, just as people do in the cruelest months. The battery is the auto's tenderest part: in freezing temperatures, it loses up to 50% of its power. To keep it happy, the car should be garaged at night, with a blanket over the hood or a warming watch light hung inside. To keep the battery charged, the driver should stay in second gear for as long as possible at speeds under 50 m.p.h.; when the car is in high gear, the generator does not produce enough energy to beef up the down...
...JANUARY 21, the day following his inauguration, President Jimmy Carter fulfilled one of his major campaign promises by issuing a blanket pardon to all those who had peacefully refused to register for the draft or be inducted into the armed services during the Vietnam War. By granting the pardon Carter hoped to bring America's tragic Vietnam experience to an end. Unfortunately, the pardon, while a step in the right direction, does not go nearly far enough...
...have been in the military for six years. I consider it an honor to serve my country. But if blanket pardon is given to these people who chose to leave America in time of need, I'll keep it in mind for the next war we have. I just won't go. What difference will it make? I'll just be pardoned later, anyway...
...snow as far south as Miami and Boca Raton. "I feel sorry for these people working on a $100-a-day suntan," said Alex Ballora, pool manager at Key Biscayne's Sonesta Hotel. "What do you say when a guest comes up and asks you for an electric blanket...