Word: drifting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Foley said all he could see was a four-foot high snow drift slumped against the neighboring house. But Foley, wondering why his normally reserved pet would be so excited, opened the gate between the two homes...
...looked over the fence and just saw a huge snow drift some four feet high...so I opened the gate and she ran into the [neighbor's] backyard and started digging away into the snow bank," Foley said...
Coleman, while attempting to replace an outdoor light bulb on her back porch, had slipped and fallen head-first into the snow drift, where she remained for several hours before losing consciousness, according to Foley...
...used to pay for dinosaur programs such as Medicare and Social Security. Next time the tax man comes around, pay attention to how much money you are signing over to him--and know that that figure will be much higher if we allow our country to continue to drift into economic oblivion...
There is a double-jointed consciousness at work in the dramatics of big weather. Down in the snowstorm, we are as mortal as the deer. I sink to my waist in a drift, I panic, my arms claw for an instant, like a drowning swimmer's, in the powder. Men up and down the storm collapse with coronaries, snow shovels in their hands, cheeks gone a deathly color, like frostbitten plums...