Word: limburger
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Brussels one morning last week, 130 taxicabs were stalled by the cold. In The Netherlands' southern Limburg, milk companies gave up their bottling because the milk froze and cracked all the bottles. In Vienna services at famed St. Stephen's Cathedral had to be moved into the crypt. The people of sunny Nice, all set to celebrate the city's annual carnival, opened their windows to find a blanket of snow covering streets and palm trees. In Rome at least one moppet, seeing Rome's first real snowfall in his lifetime (ten years), begged permission...
...Weatherman Truman sided with the much-maligned experts, too. Asked why Kansas City had been blanketed by an unexpected snow that very morning, Harry Truman chuckled: "If you had looked at the weather map, you would have seen it was in the cards." In Brussels, comely Countess Alvina Van Limburg Stirum, 43, was asked about rumors that she will soon be engaged to the ex-suitor of Britain's Princess Margaret, Group Captain Peter Townsend, 41, an air attache at Britain's local embassy. Snorted she: "Absolute nonsense." Seconded Townsend: "Complete nonsense." Added the countess: "I have...
...leading candidate. The vote: Gerstenmaier 204, Lemmer 190. The new Speaker, having torn up his confident acceptance speech, made a sad little talk, declaring that he hoped to be able "to win the confidence of the Chamber." The old Chancellor drove off impatiently to a political meeting in Limburg and explained his being three hours late by growling: "I have just come from a Bundestag session which was a disgrace...