Word: blizzarded
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...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...
...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...
...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...
...freedom from tears and other flaws." For the gardener, the Agriculture Department has a list of nurseries that sell rare plants. The bird watcher can rejoice in the fact that the Commodity Credit Corp. is authorized to donate grain in bulk to feed migratory birds during periods of blizzard, flood and drought. All amateur railroaders should have a copy of the Army Map Service's No. 8024, which charts each and every track of each and every U.S. railroad...
...squalid aftermath, five other lawyers have since flitted in and out of the case, trading mutual insults through a blizzard of appeals. Equally "grotesque," say Kaplan and Waltz, was last winter's revelation that Judge Brown was not only writing a book on the case, which he was about to confront again in the form of a new hearing on Ruby's current sanity, but that he had sent a letter to his New York publisher proposing that he announce publicly: "I have not begun to write a book." It was that disclosure, the authors suggest, that forced...