Word: blizzarded
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Austrian express train bound from Vienna to Paris got so thoroughly lost in the blizzard that it ended up in Munich. A Yugoslav train reached its destination minus its last five cars; they had blown off en route. Even such southern cities as Marseille and Barcelona were blanketed with snow. Temperatures fell so low in Switzerland that the hardy monks and trusty dogs of St. Bernard retreated to the valley from their Alpine monastery. Ten French villages along the English Channel were isolated for days, and inhabitants ran out of bread, meat and coal. Roads in northern France became literally...
...distance. But mothers began bundling their children into tights and sending them off, red, blue-and green-legged, into the winter days. Suburbanites took to wearing tights to the shopping center, bowling alley or even out to dinner. Manhattan secretaries, used to arriving at the office frozen from the blizzard that began at the subway exit, threw caution into the Out basket and showed up for work in tights. Grandes dames, off through the snow to the party of the year, wore tights beneath their full-length ballgowns...
...shooting had hardly begun when Rebel Chieftain Azahari turned up in Manila, of all places, to make sure the world press got the full story. Amid a blizzard of statements, he proclaimed himself Prime Minister of the "unitary state of North Borneo," and demanded support for his rebellion from world leaders. The only encouragement came from Indonesia's Sukarno, who has long coveted Brunei's oilfields and would like nothing more than to absorb the protectorate into Indonesian Borneo...
...labs, "new math"); yet the Office of Education's research program is too small to be of much use. The Office has less influence in Congress, for example, than the National Education Association. Keppel's predecessor, Sterling McMurrin, pointed out after quitting this fall that an N.E.A. blizzard of telegrams to all Congressmen was what scuttled the college-aid bill he supported...
...headed toward the Avenida de la Reforma, 10,000 troops presented arms, and rows of firemen snapped to salute with brass shovels. At historic Zocalo Square, the bells of the 16th century cathedral pealed a clarion welcome. And then came the confetti. 16 tons of the stuff, in a blizzard never before seen in Mexico...