Word: blizzarded
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...Fourth of July (last year the skiing lasted well into August). And it is not only the men's straw hats and the girls' flowered bonnets, the Bermuda shorts, lederhosen, sawed-off jeans and occasional bathing suits that mark the difference between warm-weather skiers and the blizzard brand...
...from the musicians' union blessed the evening with a bronze plaque of gratitude, and the beaming directors of Washington's National Symphony Orchestra could be sure that the next week's mail would bring a welcome blizzard of polite thank-you notes from the audience. With 1,no teenagers from 24 schools across the nation dutifully gathered in a Government auditorium last week, the orchestra picked up the beat and began its five-week series of 30 free "Music for Young America" concerts. And as has been the happy case for eight spring seasons...
...transistorized innards. Like a hooked tarpon, Danny runs with the line, is reeled back in, leaps, dives, tail-walks, snaps free just as he is coming to gaff. In disgust, the Master File starts spitting application cards at him until the room is ankle deep in a paper blizzard, with drifts backing up against the chilly air-conditioning ducts...
...Jonny Nilsson, 19. stubby-legged student engineer from Filipstad, Sweden: three new world records at the world speed skating championships in Karuizawa, Japan. Gliding happily through a blinding blizzard that coated him with snow and slowed down his rivals, the unheralded Nilsson sped 10,000 meters in 15 min. 33 sec., won the 5,000 meters in 7 min. 34.3 sec., and set yet another record by winning the all-events championship with the best score ever...
...pious atrocity infuriated Voltaire, and he sent off a blizzard of letters demanding details. "Ah, monsters," he cried in a letter to the judges of Calas, "you owe it to men to account for the blood of men." In a fury compounded of old age, pessimism, anticlericalism and a passion for justice, he summoned the attention of all Europe to the case, until at last Louis XV reversed the verdict against the Calases and, in so doing, crippled with shame the official persecution of the Huguenots...