Word: blizzarded
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Jonny Nilsson, 19. stubby-legged student engineer from Filipstad, Sweden: three new world records at the world speed skating championships in Karuizawa, Japan. Gliding happily through a blinding blizzard that coated him with snow and slowed down his rivals, the unheralded Nilsson sped 10,000 meters in 15 min. 33 sec., won the 5,000 meters in 7 min. 34.3 sec., and set yet another record by winning the all-events championship with the best score ever...
...pious atrocity infuriated Voltaire, and he sent off a blizzard of letters demanding details. "Ah, monsters," he cried in a letter to the judges of Calas, "you owe it to men to account for the blood of men." In a fury compounded of old age, pessimism, anticlericalism and a passion for justice, he summoned the attention of all Europe to the case, until at last Louis XV reversed the verdict against the Calases and, in so doing, crippled with shame the official persecution of the Huguenots...
...growing blizzard of paperwork piling up on U.S. business, the country's 13,500 commercial banks are slogging through the deepest drifts. Last year, the public scribbled 14 billion checks-almost double the number of a decade ago-and by 1975 they will be writing 29 billion annually. Since the end of World War II, the number of bank accounts has risen 33%, commercial loans 113%, mortgages 290%, and consumer installment credit 850%. The answer to the spreading prevalence of paper is mechanization, and the nation's big banks have set up their own computer systems. For smaller...
...first five days, the weather held. "We are fine," Siegert scribbled on a piece of paper and lowered it to helpers waiting 600 ft. below. "What's lacking is champagne. We're thirsty." On the sixth day, a howling blizzard raked the north wall. The temperature plunged to 40° below. In the base camp, thermos jugs were hastily filled with hot soup and coffee. The climbers hauled them up, reported that the soup and coffee were "solidly frozen in the thermos" by the time they arrived. The blizzard lasted for 40 hours. When the skies finally cleared...
...Discovery." Zacharias' committee soon became a nonprofit corporation: Educational Services Inc. At its headquarters in Watertown, Mass., scholars and schoolmen joined to loose a blizzard of physics-teaching aids-53 films, 75 paperback books, such cheap props as ping-pong balls and drinking straws. E.S.I. has gone on not only to launch summer teacher-training institutes, but also to rewrite U.S. engineering courses and elementary-school science. Last week the Ford Foundation handed over $1,000,000 to help E.S.I, surge ahead on all fronts. Its most ambitious plan yet: revitalizing the teaching of humanities, notably history and social...