Word: blizzarded
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...family Christmas tree began to grow onstage, heaving itself up out of the floor branch by bigger branch until its top disappeared in the flies. The window of the room broadened and heightened until the scene passed through it, outdoors into a snow-smothered pine forest, and a realistic blizzard of white confetti blew on the Snowflake Waltz. When the curtain fell, first-nighters broke into happy, rousing applause. After a dozen curtain calls for the cast, Choreographer Balanchine came out for a slightly embarrassed bow himself: he had not bothered to wear a necktie that night...
...year by the similar disappearance of MacLean's wife and three children from their home in Geneva, still ranks high in the hearts of British mystery lovers as one of the top unsolved riddles of the age. Last week's rap on the door sent a new blizzard of speculation swirling through pubs and drawing rooms. But in point of fact, except for the lack of official documentation, the mystery surrounding Burgess and the MacLeans has grown fairly thin...
...next fall. But to prove its effectiveness, the bureau plans to give it a really hard test. Its first job will be to digest the weather information that was available just before last Nov. 6, when the bureau predicted fair weather for the U.S. Northeast-and a howling blizzard blew in off the sea. If the machine predicts correctly the unexpected wind-shift that made monkeys out of the weathermen, it will get a steady job with the bureau...
Dance of the Dafias. At that, some 500 more Dafias came howling out of the forest to rush the Indian camp behind a sudden blizzard of poisoned arrows and long spears. Those inside the major's tent made short work of him and his fellows, while outside, Indian and Galong heads fell right & left. During the slaughter, three Galong porters managed to escape and carry news of the massacre to headquarters as the triumphant Dafias, holding the heads of their victims aloft, went into a wild dance of victory...
...dead partner's skull and the well-rusted murder weapon, a Winchester rifle. To prove his point, he displayed a battered old wheelbarrow in a Moscow general store in 1936. Newspapermen sent stories and pictures of the wheelbarrow all over the country, and then Moore mailed out a blizzard of clippings...