Word: blizzarded
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Alligators, Now & Later. For three days last week no Nationalist snips got through to Quemoy. The monsoons are coming on, and high seas in the Strait held back the convoys. But then the sea dropped, and the Nationalists punched through the Red blockade. On successive days and under a blizzard of shells, the amphibious LVT "alligators" waddled onto the beach from mother landing ships that stood four to six miles offshore. By also utilizing a big LSD (Landing Ship, Dock) to carry extra landing craft and supplies, the Nationalists put a record 790 tons on the beach...
...troops had landed in Lebanon and two weeks later they were still there-men of many nations might damn that fact or praise it, but that did not change it. More than the blizzard of crisis words that crisscrossed the world last week, the simple fact of power-the physical presence of U.S. forces in the Middle East-shaped the world's thinking. Turkey and Iran, on the rims of the Nasser and Soviet empires, took heart at the news; many U.S. friends elsewhere joined neutralists in condemning the landings...
Carbon Monoxide. Laconic, methodical Scientist Fuchs. not impressed, set out in a howling blizzard for the coast 1,200 miles away. His Sno-Cats ran like sewing machines. The scientists made their elaborate observations-the purpose of the expedition-and everything seemed to be going line when Seismologist Geoffrey Pratt suddenly collapsed. His face was bright pink with carbon monoxide poisoning from the exhaust of the Sno-Cat that he had been driving. Fuchs radioed for help and Rear Admiral George J. Dufek, U.S. Antarctic leader at McMurdo Sound, sent two Navy Neptunes with oxygen and British Physiologist Griffiths Pugh...
...weather turned bad again, but the caravan wound without disaster down a glacier on the edge of the ice cap. The Sno-Cats crossed the last crevasses in a swirling blizzard, and reached fairly level ice. The buildings of Scott Station loomed ahead on the white horizon, with their promise of hot baths and letters from home. When the first congratulations were over. Dr. Fuchs admitted that he had made one miscalculation. He had estimated in advance that he would need 100 days to cross Antarctica; he had made...
...Captain Robert Scott, who got to the Pole in 1912. He started back toward the Ross Sea-the same terrible journey Fuchs will have to make, and at the same terrible season-and was frozen to death with the last of his five-man party, in a nine-day blizzard...