Search Details

Word: blizzarded (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

Heavy Artillery. Perhaps the Senator should have done that in the first place. As it was, his unsolicited comments brought on a blizzard of criticism. The uproar was provoked by Kennedy's statement that the allies should allow the Viet Cong "a share of power and responsibility" in Saigon's government. "If negotiation is our aim," he had said, "we must seek a middle ground. A negotiated settlement means that each side must concede matters that are im portant in order to preserve positions that are essential." In other words, one way to end the war might...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: A Fox in a Chicken Coop | 3/4/1966 | See Source »

...snow came fluttering down, conveniently, on the weekend, the first real fall of the season in many areas. It ended four days later as one of the century's wickedest storms, a Belial of a blizzard that disrupted life for millions in the eastern third of the nation and caused at least 208 deaths...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Weather: Belial Unbound | 2/11/1966 | See Source »

...blizzard's main force hit central New York, the East's traditional "snow belt." Syracuse measured 53 in. of snow, Rochester 28.4. Oswego (pop. 23,000), a port city on Lake Ontario, was hit with 101.5 in. Huge, 30-ft. drifts blocked Oswego's main streets. In Syracuse, 40 office girls were trapped for more than two days in Mohawk Airlines offices. In Rochester, a nuptial dinner lasted for three days when wedding guests were snowed in at Temple Beth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Weather: Belial Unbound | 2/11/1966 | See Source »

...Weather Bureau meteorologist blamed the blizzard on an aberration in the jet stream, the 60-200 knot current that blows from west to east at a height of 30,000 to 40,000 ft. Normally, during the winter, the stream heads out to sea around the latitude of Philadelphia, serves as a buffer between arctic cold and warm, moist southern air. This year, as if answering an airlines commercial, the stream headed on down to Jacksonville before departing the U.S., and allowed the arctic air to freeze the moisture-laden southern front on its way north. The result was already...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Weather: Belial Unbound | 2/11/1966 | See Source »

...Thousand Days he has done just that. From page 1 of the book, when he sets the stage for Kennedy's Inauguration by describing the "eerie beauty" of blizzard-bound Washington, to page 1031, when he rings down the curtain on a snow-covered grave in Arlington, he follows Thomas Babington Macaulay's dictum that "a truly great historian would reclaim those materials which the novelist has appropriated...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Combative Chronicler | 12/17/1965 | See Source »

Previous | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | Next