Word: blizzarded
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Harvard officials reported few major problems, although the snow toppled half a dozen large trees around the University. The school shut down in the wake of the 1978 blizzard for the first time this century; there is no chance classes will be called off as a result of this storm, however, University officials said yesterday...
...National Council of Churches was born in Cleveland in 1950 with a blizzard raging outside the hall, but with sizzling enthusiasm coming from the 4,000 delegates inside. Last week the weather in Cleveland was warmer, but the social and religious climate had turned chilly as the N.C.C. celebrated a belated 30th anniver sary and mulled its many woes. The loudly trumpeted "Ecumenical Event" was supposed to draw 2,000-plus clergy and lay leaders. Instead, only 900 showed...
...precisely because it is such an emblem of wealth and status, coke is the drug of choice for perhaps millions of solid, conventional and often upwardly mobile citizens-lawyers, businessmen, students, government bureaucrats, politicians, policemen, secretaries, bankers, mechanics, real estate brokers, waitresses. Largely unchecked by law enforcement, a veritable blizzard of the white powder is blowing through the American middle class, and it is causing significant social and economic shifts no less than a disturbing drug problem...
There is little likelihood that the cocaine blizzard will soon abate. A drug habit born of a desire to escape the bad news in life is not likely to be discouraged by the bad news about the drug itself. And so middle class Americans continue to succumb to the powder's crystalline dazzle. Few are yet aware or willing to concede that at the very least, taking cocaine is dangerous to their psy chological health. It may be no easy task to reconvince them that good times are made, not sniffed...
Says Grant Tinker, head of MTM Productions, who took full-page ads in the trade papers denouncing the TV Guide articles: "The blizzard is exaggerated. With the affluence around, I'd guess there's the same amount of use on Capitol Hill and Wall Street." That is not necessarily a comforting defense. Protests Jeff Wald, Helen Reddy's manager and husband, himself a former heavy cocaine user: "I've never seen coke used as a means of barter or a way of making a deal...