Word: blizzarded
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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They failed, defeated by ice, huge cliffs and a blizzard. But they did get to the top of Lenana Peak, more than 16,000 ft. high. There they planted an Italian flag, which they had managed to conceal throughout their internment. Then came the grueling descent, with the sick man a burden and with an almost complete lack of food. Eighteen days after they walked out, they staggered back into the P.W. camp. A humane British commander limited punishment to seven days behind bars...
When he heard that an Anchorage newspaper was for sale, he bought it. That was in 1935 and the beginning of a blizzard of work for Atwood. The paper's circulation was then 650, and it was printed on an old hand-fed press. Says he: "I never worked so hard in my life before. But the town was growing and healthy, and the paper grew with it. We have two new presses now, built a new plant double the size of the old one, added two more wings since 1946. The Daily Times circulation...
Barring a blizzard, the varsity lacrosse squad will hold its first outdoor practice of the season this afternoon...
While the blizzard of paperwork swept across Dwight Eisenhower's desk last week, the streams of visitors continued to flow in through the White House front door. There were more liaison luncheons with Congressmen. The Cabinet met as usual, with the now-standard minute of silent prayer to start the meeting, and the Secretaries came to the executive wing by a new route: their cars were brought in through a side gate to the back door, off limits to reporters and photographers. One morning congressional leaders turned up at 8 a.m. for orange juice and coffee, and a briefing...
...Steamboat Springs, Colo., with leaps of 276 and 289 ft.-plus almost flawless form-Art Tokle of Chicago's Norge Ski' Club won the national ski-jumping championship. And in Ishpeming, Mich., racing through a near blizzard, Norman Oakbig of Bush Lake, Minn, took the North American cross-country (10 mile) championship...