Word: icing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Colder & Colder & Colder. Trees, which gleamed like great crystal chandeliers and creaked like windmills, broke down by the thousands under their enormous loads of ice. Sagging power and telephone lines were carried away by crashing limbs. In hundreds of towns the night sky was lit by the weird blue flash and flare of high-voltage electricity. Lights went out, telephones went dead and electrically operated oil burners stopped running. Harassed storekeepers were deluged with demands for candles and axes...
...record 25.8 inch snowfall (TIME, Jan. 5) when the second storm hit. Fire-alarm boxes went out of whack. Transportation fell back to a medieval pace. Sixteen thousand houses in metropolitan New York and many thousands more in Westchester County and on Long Island were without heat. In ice-sheathed New Jersey a state of emergency was called, armories were thrown open to shelter the chilled citizenry, and children were ordered indoors because of the danger from broken high-tension wires...
...lingered on. Among them was an airplane pilot, who had gone to his Bucks County, Pa. farm before the sleet began, had spent a night reading by candle light, glaring at his defunct radio, and listening to the sound of his prize maples collapsing under the weight of the ice. In the morning, as he set about trying to get back to LaGuardia Field, he made further discoveries: he could get no water (his electric pump was dead), no gasoline for his car (gas pumps were dead too), and no money for a railroad ticket because the local bank vault...
...Year." And last week her debut had the hairy Daily News mewing about "a pale blue moon" and "pink mist." For her coming-out party, there was a blaze of pink candles, a bed of pink azaleas, baby spots playing on the potted plants, a hamburger stand and an ice cream stand, champagne ("all French") in five-foot jeroboams, Moscow Mules* in copper souvenir cups. After breakfast (4 a.m.) Ginny hauled off her hoopskirt ("icy white satin . . . after a Winterhalter portrait of the Empress Eugénie") and fell into...
...winnings (a reported ducal $75,000 a year, maybe more, if a hoped-for 150 stations buy his transcribed show). As a jockey, the Duke promised to be impressive: his jazz know-how gave his between-platter comments a fine mood indigo. One record, he decided, had a "pear ice cream" flavor; Songstress Sarah Vaughn was "serpentine and opalesque"; Crooner Vic Damone "caressed with satin and gave a back porch intimacy...