Word: blooey
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...snow piled up in Manhattan, 13 inches in Philadelphia, and 14 inches in Washington, D.C., and no icicle-encrusted Lower Slobbovians were ever more solidly snowbound. Groaned one passenger who spent 13½ hours (instead of four) between Washington and New York: "A few inches of snow-and blooey...
...Blooey" was right. Every one of the major lines serving the Atlantic Coast from Washington to Boston was hard hit.. As drifting snow buried tracks and zero cold froze engines and switches, the New York Central, the New Haven, the Erie and many other commuter lines ran hours late. Trains loaded with commuters got stalled in the fields, and rescue trains sent out after them got stalled too. The New York Central reported its long-haul trains running between New York and Chicago as much as 20 hours late. Each delay produced a paralyzing chain reaction. The day after...
...hero for the first foolish time met Minnie, a mousy young lady who looked as much like Mary Pickford as a rodent could. And all at once, for no apparent reason, there was Pegleg Pete, a monstrous mingling of common house cat and Long John Silver. Everything always went blooey, of course. Pegleg charging, music pounding, Minnie squealing-and Mickey rushing madly to the rescue...