Word: blizzarded
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...about kidnapers, but that he hadn't thought about it for years because his children were nearly all adults. He had sold his private plane several months ago, so he hired the first thing he could find: a twin-engined Beechcraft. But when he arrived at Tahoe, the blizzard was so thick that the plane was deflected to Reno. Switching to a car, Sinatra started up into the Sierras. But the storm stopped him again ("You couldn't see the hood of the car," said the driver), and he had to turn back...
Basement Brooder. His aides began scrounging for "new ideas" to work into his speech. Stevenson brought down a sheaf of suggestions. The State Department produced a blizzard of memos. Arthur Schlesinger Jr. phoned Pundit Walter Lippmann to ask what the President might discuss. McGeorge Bundy brooded in the White House basement, jotting occasional thoughts on yellow legal paper. The final drafting was left mainly to Speechwriter Ted Sorensen, who was still scribbling away as he flew with Kennedy to Manhattan on the eve of the speech...
...Fourth of July (last year the skiing lasted well into August). And it is not only the men's straw hats and the girls' flowered bonnets, the Bermuda shorts, lederhosen, sawed-off jeans and occasional bathing suits that mark the difference between warm-weather skiers and the blizzard brand...
...from the musicians' union blessed the evening with a bronze plaque of gratitude, and the beaming directors of Washington's National Symphony Orchestra could be sure that the next week's mail would bring a welcome blizzard of polite thank-you notes from the audience. With 1,no teenagers from 24 schools across the nation dutifully gathered in a Government auditorium last week, the orchestra picked up the beat and began its five-week series of 30 free "Music for Young America" concerts. And as has been the happy case for eight spring seasons...
...transistorized innards. Like a hooked tarpon, Danny runs with the line, is reeled back in, leaps, dives, tail-walks, snaps free just as he is coming to gaff. In disgust, the Master File starts spitting application cards at him until the room is ankle deep in a paper blizzard, with drifts backing up against the chilly air-conditioning ducts...