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Word: blizzarded (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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Funny thing, a hurricane. Winds whip at gale force. Massachusetts shuts down and prepares for the worst. And at Harvard, Gloria is cause for celebration. For the first time since the blizzard of 1978, and only the third this century, the University closed its doors. And the student body, well, it responded in good form...

Author: By Ben Sherwood, | Title: Dealing With Gloria | 9/30/1985 | See Source »

...last time classes and daily business at Harvard were cancelled was on February 8-9, 1978, when the legednary blizzard of '78 dumped a record-high 29 inches of snow on Cambridge. The only other time in this century that Harvard shut down was September 21, 1938, two days before registration, when an unexpected hurricane ravaged the East Coast and killed 600 people

Author: By Peter J. Howe and The CRIMSON Staff, S | Title: Hurricane Gloria Goes Easy on Cambridge | 9/28/1985 | See Source »

...netwomen dropped below 500 before returning to Cambridge however be losing a TKO to a blizzard which forced them to spend an unscheduled night in Minneapolis...

Author: By John Zilcosky, | Title: Netwomen Brave Elements For 3-3 California Trip | 4/2/1985 | See Source »

...Crimson's trip ended on rather two soar notes. First, it was defeated, 7-2, by a high-powered USC team in the journey's finale, and then it was ambushed by the blizzard...

Author: By John Zilcosky, | Title: Netwomen Brave Elements For 3-3 California Trip | 4/2/1985 | See Source »

...like the air-raid exercises of the '50s, ducking under their desks at the screech of an alarm. Reason: if a large earthquake hits the city-as one did in 1983-the network of gas pipes that circulates throughout Tokyo could explode, unleashing, among other things, a deadly blizzard of flying glass...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Environment: Hazards Of a Toxic Wasteland | 12/17/1984 | See Source »

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