Word: blizzarded
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Importing the weather from Chicagoland (where there was a blizzard last week) was merely aging (71) Bertie McCormick's latest step in remaking the Times-Herald in the image of his Chicago Tribune. Already, the T-H was using Trib-style type and makeup, parroting its editorials and columnists, using the Trib's truncated spellings (sherif, frate), even leading off the weekly football predictions (piped in from Chicago) with Midwestern games. Cracked one Washington newshand: "All he needs to do is call it the Washington Tribune...
...sign appeared last week on the long mail-sorting tables in the executive office building next door to the White House. It was labeled "Clark." Under it piled the blizzard of communications to the White House about Harry Truman's nomination of General Mark Clark as the first U.S. Ambassador to the Vatican.* By week's end 21,000 letters and telegrams had arrived, the biggest and most clamorous bag of mail delivered to the White House on any issue in recent years, except the firing of Douglas MacArthur. Score: 6 to 1 against the Clark nomination...
Unlike his artistic hero Turner, who was content to sleep on tavern tables on his cross-country art hikes (and once had himself bound to a ship's mast during a blizzard so he could observe the snow), Steer had a morbid fear of drafts, never went out in bad weather; on landscape sorties, he carried along a platform to keep his feet dry. To make sure of respectful treatment from train porters and inn servants, he lugged his painting gear in a cricketer...
...Secret of Convict Lake (20th Century-Fox) leads five escaped convicts through a mountain blizzard and into an isolated valley inhabited only by the womenfolk and children of some absent gold prospectors. In this suspenseful setting for a war between the sexes, the women at first have the advantage of guns, mobility and an able, if ailing, leader in Ethel Barrymore. Restricted to a single cabin and kept indoors by the threat of a well-handled rifle, the convicts use the sickness of one of their number, a fire in a stable and the way of a man with...
...jump for his life. As the Red Arrow rounded the curve, its horn blasted. Then, with a roar and a blinding electric flash, its locomotive sliced through the rear Pullman of the express, derailed the car ahead, reared like a wounded beast, and toppled sideways in a blizzard of dust, broken glass and feathers from burst pillows...