Word: blizzarded
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Back in the blizzard-blitzed North between his ten-day Southern vacation and this week's trip to Palm Desert, Calif., Dwight D. Eisenhower put in his first working day at an office on the Gettysburg College campus. In addition, his staff of 15 maintained a five-room Washington headquarters, where mail still comes in at the rate of 1,900 pieces a day. Among last week's items: a fluffy, fly-chasing yak's tail, sent by a Himalayan guide who knew Ike's name but titled him "Big Chief All American Villages...
...night of the meet. Wilma changed into her track suit in her hotel, pulled on a white leather coat, and tiptoed through the mounting snow of a blizzard while Temple vainly flagged the empty cabs that cruised blandly by. Worse yet. when she did reach the Garden the guards refused to let her in the nearest entrance, brusquely directed her to a door a block away...
...week of changeover in the U.S. Government, and for only the fifth time in the 20th century a new President moved into the White House in place of an outgoing President of the opposing political party. A blizzard threatened to turn the whole momentous occasion into a farce-but President John Kennedy, delivering his inaugural address (see box on next page), more than saved...
...required only 660 well-paid (from $440 to $674 per month) railroad tugboat workers, plus a blizzard, to bring complete and even desperate confusion last week to New York City and much of the U.S. Northeast. Early in the week, tugboat-union pickets marched outside Manhattan's Grand Central Station, managed to close the New York Central Railroad. A couple of days later, the New Haven Railroad was forced to shut down. At that point, more than 100,000 commuters had been forced to find new ways of getting to work-and the snowstorm made things tougher...
...High Hopes and Walking Down to Washington among the New Year's Eve dancers at Chevy Chase Club and in the jammed hotel ballrooms. Along Pennsylvania Avenue, workmen rushed new tiers of spectator stands for John Fitzgerald Kennedy's inaugural parade, and the requests for tickets reached blizzard stage...