Word: blizzarded
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Blizzard. The trouble-beset auto industry seemed to be finally digging itself out of the blizzard of unsold 1956 models. Final figures for May showed new car inventories at 800,000 units, down 70,000 from April. With June production scheduled for only 446,000 units, some 3% less than June 1955, automakers expect to cut inventories another 100,000 by the first of July. Led by Chevrolet, which has sold a whopping 822,729 cars and trucks in 1956's first five months, only 820 fewer than the 1955 record, many companies reported sharp sales spurts...
...puffed on his battered pipe, and, while Filipino stewards served coffee, talked easily. The gentle, almost ingenuous, fagade was deceptive: watching like hawks from behind one-way peepholes at each end of the office were Burke's aides. They knew that they would soon be struck by a blizzard of memos, ideas and questions, all growing out of Burke's seemingly casual conversation. It is the same with every conversation Burke...
...Protestant seminaries each spring the fledgling ministers come, eager for service and responsibility as God's men in the world. What happens then? An explicit answer came last week from Sociologist Samuel W. Blizzard Jr. of Pennsylvania State University, who gave the Greater Pittsburgh Ministerial Union a preliminary report on a 2½-year, $40,-000 survey, financed from the Russell Sage Foundation. Subject of the survey: the requirements of the modern ministry...
With an eleven-page questionnaire, Professor Blizzard examined 346 ministers, balanced as to location, education and denomination. Their average age was 46.8; their average term with their parish was almost eight years. Some of his findings...
...Most ministers had what Sociologist Blizzard calls a "theological concept" of the church. Of these, 37% were "individualistic" ("The church is the place where an individual has a personal experience with God"), and 33% were "sacramental" ("The church is the mediator of God's grace"). Thirty percent held a "communal" view of the church ("We are a fellowship of believers...