Word: blizzards
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...began his invasion last fortnight with these advantages reversed. Instead of a disgruntled ruling class, he faced a nation which, almost to the man, hates the Russians as bloody oppressors.* And instead of clear weather and frozen lakes, Joe Stalin's forces found themselves fighting in a blinding blizzard, which grounded aviation, smashed tanks against half-concealed boulders and granite tank barriers, and gave to the Finns, who fight guerrilla-style in small units, with short, light machine guns and short, razor-edged knives, an almost even break. By the end of the second week...
After two days of air-bombing, a heavy snowfall grounded all planes. The blizzard also impeded evacuation of foreigners from Helsinki and other cities. Most foreigners sought to cross the Bothnian Sea to Sweden...
PINKHAM NOTCH, N. H.--Out of the teeth of the worst autumn blizzard in Mount Washington's recent history, a girl and two youths trudged today, alive and well, to confound forest rangers who had given them only "one chance in a million" to survive...
...family hatred of anything Prussian. He became a lieutenant of field artillery, learned to like gunnery, never learned to like army discipline. While he was in training at Camp Knox, Ky., he and Edith Wilk, onetime town librarian of Elwood, were married. Held up by a blizzard, Lieutenant Willkie was two days late for the wedding, turned up with a frozen, bedraggled bridal bouquet. Sweet-faced Edith Wilk carried it to the altar...
...wonder of such stay-at-home fellow Academicians as Benjamin West and Sir Thomas Lawrence, who began by comparing them with Claude Lorrain and ended by finding them incomparable. His Snowstorm, for which he prepared by having himself lashed to a mast for four hours during a Channel blizzard, was too much for almost everybody. One of the finest, in his own estimation, was The Fighting Téméraire tugged to her last berth to be broken up, 1838. This sunset picture of a black, belching little tug beside the spectral jewel of the old ship...