Word: blizzarded
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...corps, and Burke's songs cover the traditional themes so comforting to men who must battle not only raging storms but also bureaucrats and politicians who would budget perfectly good funds for, say, schools instead of roads. One song celebrates the good wives left behind when a blizzard must be cleared away, and another the sad fact that stoicism is necessary in a poor state like Vermont: "You gotta drive that hunk of junk, son," goes the refrain. "You gotta drive it by yourself...
Wentzell and his charges in particular had every reason to be disturbed by the decision. The team lost nearly half its schedule to the April blizzard, and with the Ivy champion-ships coming up this weekend, the Crimson nine could use some more competitive experience. And they could stand some experienced competition as well...
...snowfall brought the winter's total to 73 in.-the most for the motor city in more than 50 years. In New York City, where winds of up to 35 m.p.h. swirled at least a foot of snow, the National Weather Service officially declared the storm a blizzard, the first ever recorded in the area for the month. With thoughtful understatement a service meteorologist observed, "It's been an unusual April...
...four days, the heaviest blizzard to hit the High Sierra in 30 years deposited 12 ft. of snow. Near Lake Tahoe, vacationers and mountain residents were stranded when major highways were closed, many blocked by snow slides. Several homes had been crushed by sliding snow masses; one California highway patrolman was buried briefly in his squad car near Truckee, Calif. Throughout the surrounding mountains, avalanche patrols used explosives and 75-mm howitzers to blast away dangerous snow formations, trying to keep pace with the blizzard and avert a catastrophe...
...shining and the temperature is into the 50s, but four days ago, it looked like winter all over again. A fierce blizzard swept through southern New England Tuesday, curtailing businesses and public services. In Cambridge, the city government hit hard by Proposition 2 1 2 struggled to clear the streets...