Word: blizzarded
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When the Eskimo feels too warm, as he frequently does even in very cold weather, he loosens his parka at the chin and lets some of his bubble of warmth escape. If he has to sit out a blizzard in the open, he pulls his arms out of the sleeves and folds them across his naked chest as additional heat-generators.' He wears no underclothes, of course. They are not necessary, says Stefansson. and about all they do is add weight and collect moisture...
...first they attacked head on. "In our business," says one of them (with some chagrin, now), "weather had never stopped us. We'd work through a blizzard or duster. So when we started on offshore oil, we said: 'To hell with the weather. What's a hurricane, anyway? Nothing but a big ol wind...
...road plotted with military precision, knew just how fast to take each hill, just how to time themselves to miss gas-gobbling traffic lights. (One driver hit only five red lights on the entire run.) Every car finished, and the only unplanned halt was in a howling blizzard at California's 7,135-ft. Donner Pass...
More people were paying more federal income taxes than ever before. Last year was the most prosperous year in U.S. history; the income-tax rate stayed steady and high through the year. Some 60 million personal returns, accounting for $32.5 billion, will blizzard into Internal Revenue offices before midnight March 15. Also rolling in by that hour will be some 8,000,000 corporate returns, the most ever, accounting for a record $22.9 billion...
...Critics said he had an adolescent, romantic attitude toward dueling. This much is true: on several occasions he did come close too shooting it out, the most famous time with the Marquis de Mores, an ambitious Frenchman who had built up a rival ranch in the Dakotas. A severe blizzard sent Roosevelt back East bankrupt, ending the feud...