Word: blizzarded
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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After all, "nothing, not even a blizzard will stop the Irish," declares Daniel M. O'Sullivan, originator of a state legislature bill to make St. Patrick's Day a legal holiday. Blizzard and all, 50,000 wearers of the Green are expected to slosh through South Boston streets at 2 this afternoon, in honor of their patron saint...
...heaviest March blizzard since 1888 hit the Boston area last night with an estimated snowfall of 10 to 12 inches...
...bill and wrestled with the question of arms shipments to the Middle East (see below). Concerned by the plight of Western European nations currently suffering one of their worst winters in recent years, Ike also announced that the U.S. stood ready to rush surplus agricultural commodities to the blizzard-stricken areas. Presumably, too, he was still thinking toward a decision on the second term issue. But as the week rolled on politicians and newsmen alike were becoming convinced that the decision was a foregone conclusion. A poll of White House correspondents who had made the trip to Georgia showed that...
...blizzard swept over the peak of Vermont's Mount Mansfield one day last week, a woman in a wheelchair pulled the veil from a two-ton marble sculpture fashioned like a huge dime. With the dedication of the mountaintop sculpture, a monument to the victims of the U.S.'s first polio epidemic,* the 1956 March of Dimes opened. There was the usual fanfare-the sort that has made Americans contribute more than three billion dimes since the drive began in 1938. But the 1956 kickoff was different: for the first time, the year was beginning with the certain...
...south of Cambridge; the Crimson's first performance on television since 1951--and the first show ever from Hanover--came over very well. The video waves from Providence, R.I. and Manchester, N.H. scrupulously avoided Harvard Square, however, so that most of the sets here produced only an electronic blizzard and a fatherly voice that at one point intoned: "I hope the boys play a good clean game and don't get hurt...