Word: blizzarded
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Capitol Hill last week, the ballooning federal deficit was being treated more as a conversation piece than an urgent problem. Despite a few genuine efforts to do what everyone knew had to be done-raise revenues and reduce spending-the week ended with a blizzard of babbling and fruitless finger-pointing between Congress and the White House that brought the Government once again to the brink of a breakdown. "I am not rinding any leadership at either end of Pennsylvania Avenue," said Democrat James Jones of Oklahoma, the chairman of the House Budget Committee...
...OPENING has Mowat sitting in the middle of a glacial field, attempting to ward off an enveloping blizzard with the comical and futile bureaucratic gesture of typing a work report. By the end of the film he is running stark naked in the midst of a stampeding herd of caribou. Neither scenes are models of scientific investigation--let alone verisimilitude--but they serve admirable to frame Mowat's journey into awareness through the medium of Ballard's slightly surreal vision. If at times the meshing of beguiling photography with the Tangerine Dream-like score begins dangerously to suggest Jean-Jacques...
...What do you want me to do, faint?" he genially asked a cadre of pestering reporters as he puffed on his cigar. So "Mayor Bill," 73, bowed out after finishing a stinging third in a field of seven in last Tuesday's election. Slogging through a freak spring blizzard, voters favored former State Legislator Federico Pefia and former District Attorney Dale Tooley, who will meet in a runoff on June...
...dense with portents: a comet in the northern sky, an eclipse of the sun. The Eastern U.S. was broiled by ungodly heat and swept by tornadoes and hurricanes. Multitudes of squirrels, in the tens of thousands, were seen migrating south across Kentucky. In 1816 Connecticut had a blizzard on June 6. On the Fourth of July that year, the highest temperature recorded in Savannah, Ga., was 46°F The prevailing opinion, for a little while, was that the universe had gone crazy...
...seasons is just a matter of habit. When man sends colonies into space, he will be able to mount movable, sun-reflecting mirrors to simulate rhythms of night and day and even the terrestrial seasons. If he wished such special effects, he could probably conjure up an occasional blizzard inside the space colony. But he doubtless will follow the longstanding American habit of thinking that outer space should, as much as possible, resemble Southern California. If he does install seasons in the colony, they will be only for the benefit of the vegetables...