Word: blizzarded
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...time he arrives until he's down to his shorts in his hotel room." The television industry almost lived up to the threat. From the moment the Batoan touched U.S. soil at Hawaii's Hickam Field to the triumphal procession through Manhattan's ticker-tape blizzard five days later, TV kept its relentless eyes on General Douglas MacArthur...
...world struck Turner as a challenge; he tackled and translated into paint everything from Alpine peaks and torrents down to Venetian gondolas and delicately tinted palaces. Turner studied the shimmering hugeness of the sea more closely than any previous painter. Once during a Channel crossing in a blizzard he had himself lashed to the mast, the better to observe the storm...
...sophomore, junior, senior and graduate averages come from New England homes, wear sweaters, skirts and low-heeled shoes (but seldom black horn-rimmed glasses and, complying with college rules, no blue jeans, ski pants, slacks or the like except in dormitories at certain hours and outdoors in sub-zero, blizzard weather). They prefer arts to technical courses, and are enrolled in the only college in the world that doesn't have a faculty...
...oilfields. But Graves was never satisfied to work for someone else. He saved enough money to buy a truck, parlayed it into a fleet of seven and sold out for $60,000. With the cash he bought a sheep ranch of his own-and was wiped out when a blizzard killed his herd...
...Moorish captors, he spent ten months chained in a cell. When the ransom money finally came, he returned to a Spain that had all but forgotten the heroes of Lepanto, and that could not spare him a pension. The 36-year-old veteran settled down to manufacture a blizzard of uninspired poems, unsuccessful plays and a pastoral novel, while his illegitimate daughter, his wife, his mother and his two sisters, all of whom he supported, looked hopefully over his shoulder...