Word: drift
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Foot Guard was called off. Danbury bakers began charging 25? a loaf for bread. There was no milk in New Haven for two days. A Wilton mother bore her baby in front of an open fireplace and by candle-light after a doctor had dug through a 18-ft. drift to her door. Six funerals were postponed in Bridgeport, where banks and stores closed...
Death and injury came in curious ways. A New Jersey fireman, knocked into a drift by a fire hose, lay there unconscious until his fellows discovered him, a solid block of ice. A Long Islander tried to get home, found he could not make it, broke a window to find shelter in a vacant house, gashed his arms and bled to death. Three Jerseymen were marooned all night in their car near Harmony. Next morning they set out for help. One fell exhausted. When his companions returned with help he was frozen stiff. The Long Island...
...French poodle Nunsoe Duc de la Terrace. The tight white coat of the wire-haired fox terrier Flornell Spicy Bit of Halleston was hound-marked with tan; the silky white of the pointer Benson of Crombie marked with liver. Snowflake, the Old English sheepdog, looked like a fresh snow drift blanketed with fine blue-grey ash. Only the Pekingese Wu Foo of Kingswere showed no white in its tawny-red fluff. The final judging lasted 20 minutes. Dr. Jarrett watched the six prize-winners as they circled the ring; eyed their carriage, gait and spirit; felt their shoulders, briskets...
...corner of Europe was a little country whose government did not change and whose King did not drift off to exile. In 1905 he had taken an oath "to maintain the national independence and the integrity of territory," a simple thing it seemed, to promise, since the nations of Europe had all vowed to preserve forever Belgian independence and territorial integrity. But nine years later a madman in a crooked street fired a shot which found its mark. The Chancellor of Imperial Germany, a gentle, weak, and honest man, explained to the Reichstag that the nation had her back...
...Through yawps of static, the U. S. heard his pleasant Irish voice : "The big question is, for instance, is Britain heading straight for war? That is what you want to know, isn't it? At present Britain is not heading straight for anywhere. She is as likely to drift into war as anybody else, providing somebody else starts the war. You must not be put off by the humbug about disarmament. The possibility of diabolical war must be faced, though I hope and trust it will peter out in general ridicule." In the House of Commons moon-faced Winston...