Word: blizzarded
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...fact was that Washington, cherry blossoms or no, was shivering in a political blizzard that even the political weathermen could not quite understand. Treasury Secretary George Humphrey's warnings against big budgets (TIME, Jan. 28 et seq.) had whistled up a cold front of economy talk all across the nation. Just at the time when the Administration was trying to get appropriations out of Congress, the cold front clashed with the warm winds of modern Republicanism. Principal orphans of the storm were the Eisenhower Republicans in Cabinet, House and Senate. The principal happy onlookers, snug and comfortable in Taftite...
Crystallized Ball. In Amarillo. Texas, after predicting lower winds and snow flurries, Weather Forecaster Lawrence Smith was stranded at the airport for 21 hours by a howling blizzard and 5-ft. snowdrifts...
...Gulf of Mexico swept a curtain of snow. It whistled through the stricken plains (see map), lashing into the land under 80 m.p.h. winds. It piled up mountainous drifts, leveled windmills and fences, ripped up loose crops, killed about 100,000 precious head of cattle. Caught in the blizzard were thousands of homeowners and travelers. Aboard the Union Pacific's Denver-bound City of St. Louis, stopped in deep Kansas drifts, 213 passengers and crewmen huddled for two days, ripped down the train's drapes and curtains to keep warm. In Tascosa, Texas, 16-year-old Chester Simpson...
Lister, who withdrew from the University two weeks ago, was climbing in Huntington's Ravine with a group from the Harvard Mountaineering Club. The group reportedly became lost when a severe blizzard came...
...made his point by exhibiting a children's jigsaw-puzzle map of the U.S. Sure enough, the symbols on the North Dakota puzzle piece were a spear of grain and a thermometer showing a low of- 45°. Furthermore, people on the outside were always talking about a "blizzard sweeping out of North Dakota." Something, Ludwick demanded, has got to be done to counter all this bad publicity...