Word: blizzards
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Soon again," he wrote, "I hope to be coming up the Patapsco at midnight. There will be a Chesapeake blizzard. Visibility will be low. But gloriously floodlighted on Fort McHenry will be the driving Star-Spangled Banner, giving proof to the world that our flag is always there...
...bring British prestige crumbling down around the Attlee government as quickly as would a withdrawal from the delicate German balance, or from the Indian turmoil. At these key points, British commitments are Allied commitments, and the American taxpayer stands to lose directly in the current Battle of the Blizzard...
...When the blizzard clears in south England, all of western Europe will look to the British cabinet for a way out of national despair. The United States can provide modern techniques and aid, and Europe the markets, but only Downing Street can lend the initial impetus that will bring the British lion in off the streets...
...Missouri, Kansas, Indiana and Ohio, temperatures fell to freezing as the blizzard laid a sheet of ice and left a trail of wreckage over the land. The night it hit Milwaukee it was going 60 miles an hour, spitting lightning and roaring like Aeolus. Milwaukee stopped breathing. Streetcars, buses, automobiles stalled; in many cases their passengers slept in them. People were trapped everywhere-a phenomenal number of them in bars. After twelve hours, the fire department was snowed in; snowplows could not budge through the 10-foot drifts. Five people who tried to buck their way home through the shot...
...coated breakwater near Northwestern University's campus at Evanston, Student Dwight Cook watched the 20-foot waves pound in from Lake Michigan. Suddenly, one licked him out of sight. In Chicago, the blizzard sent pedestrians sprawling, snapped power lines, broke windows and stopped traffic. Thunder hammered across a sky that flashed red, purple and orange. For good measure, the dust from Texas arrived to turn the snow yellow and brown, and started Chicagoans searching their Bibles...