Word: snow
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Snow and chilling frosts and death beneath the Potomac's icy waters...
...almost everywhere, it snowed. In western Montana, 40-ft. drifts foiled efforts to reclaim two bodies from a private-plane crash. Near South Bend, Ind., 107 travelers were blizzardbound for a night in a state police barracks. Buffalo had a snowfall record: 25 in. in 24 hours. In the South, snow of any depth is a shock, and snow fell in every Southern state, in some for three days running; as much as 5 in. piled up in Georgia...
...help and froze to death. Near Pendleton, S.C., Margaret Swaney's new wood-stocked heater malfunctioned and started a fire; her three teen-age children were killed. Herbert Ahlstedt, 54, of Level Plains, Ala., was knocked unconscious by falling, ice-heavy tree limbs. Face down in the snow, he froze and died...
Farther east, Milwaukee suffered its worst blizzard in 35 years, with 33 m.p.h. winds driving 16 in. of fresh snow; 6 in. had fallen earlier. The city was paralyzed for a day. Georgia was beset by heavy rains and flooding, and a tornado whirled through Newton, Miss. (pop. 3,556), killing one man and injuring...
...adsmanship seems at first hoot almost suicidal for the networks: for every one of the games that is in play, one television set, to which it must be hooked, is unavailable to receive General Hospital, The Dukes of Hazzard, and much needed information about what kind of snow tire and no-qual beer to choose. Has the tube at last succeeded in strangling itself...