Word: blizzarded
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...half an hour behind his boss. While McNamara, with an eye on the clock, slashes away at his paper work, Gilpatric sits suavely behind an unlittered desk, almost always has time for some casual talk with a visitor. When McNamara begins to whirl out a blizzard of "snowflakes"-Pentagonese for his single-page directives that often demand prompt action-Gilpatric may help dig out a snowed-under officer by getting an impossible deadline date extended...
Returning home after a visit to New York where he was welcomed in a blizzard of ticker tape ("What a wonderful, remarkable thing"), Chiari could report good news on a project that would mean much more to Panama than any haggling over current fees and tolls. When the present canal reaches its capacity sometime between 1980 and the year 2000, the U.S. intends to build another one, and it will probably be in Panama. Of all possible new routes (see map), the two most favored are in eastern Panama above the Colombian border. The U.S. Atomic Energy Commission, which...
...make up in some way for Natalie Wood's being left without an Oscar, Warner Bros, at week's end released a blizzard of pictures showing her being left with hardly anything. Taken on the set of Gypsy, a movie version of the Broadway hit in which Natalie will appear as Gypsy Rose Lee, the shots showed her stripping down to the Wood...
...seismographs around the world begin to jitter with the most violent tremors ever measured. Days later, the globe still quivers with secondary shocks. Torrential rains fall in improbable places. A sun eclipse occurs ten days early. In Rome the temperature rises to 139°, while in New York a blizzard piles twelve inches of snow on the city's streets. Steam billows up from the sea and rolls over Western Europe at a depth of 50 feet till a flurry of cyclones blows it away...
After Washington came New York, eager to top the capital's welcome. Glenn himself was awed by the tumultuous Broadway parade as his motorcade inched through 4,000,000 roaring, swarming New Yorkers in a blizzard of ticker tape-3,474 tons of paper that buried Douglas MacArthur's 1951 record downfall of 3,249 tons. There was the inescapable luncheon at the Waldorf with hours of zephyrous speeches, and at the U.N. Glenn and his fellow astronauts chatted with the diplomats over champagne. Between the official rounds, the Glenn family shed their shoes in their Waldorf suite...