Word: snowbanked
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...five friends ventured out for a quick tour of the area in a Sno-Cat tractor. Half a mile from the lodge, the tractor suddenly crashed over the brink of a 35-ft. snow canyon, turned completely over, dented its aluminum top and landed on its tracks on a snowbank. By great good luck, nobody was scratched...
...rescue party from Lake Louise struggled up Mount Temple, worked all night to find the nine victims. Only Townsend Balis had been killed instantly; four had died slowly of exposure. Two were found dead in a snowbank. Two others, still alive, were brought safely down the mountain. Said Dr. P. G. Costigan, park medical officer: "If the boys had even been dressed in suitably warm clothing, probably most of them could have come out all right...
...Kefauver telecasts, appeared to have the highest incidence of nip-ups and pratfalls. Since taking charge of our Denver bureau in March, he has been bucked off a horse, bounced out of a plane, fallen on by a Christmas tree and had his face rubbed sportively in a snowbank by a gang of high-school football players...
Aniela, it develops, "was miraculous in the dark . . . Her great arms clutched about him in a frenzy. She made uncouth noises." Nevertheless David, "a brilliant young architect [who] had done a few big things bigly," is soon rolling in a snowbank with somebody else, "a pink avalanche of loveliness" named Mary. "There . . . with her sables and his great coat for blankets, David wooed a wintry Tsarina swathed in sables . . . The snow gave the deed the absolution of its own purity...
...bare details of one failure after another. Battling 100-m.p.h. winds and 40-below-zero temperatures, the rescuers could not even get started for three days. When they did, the B-17 swerved out of control as it swooped down on to the rutted icecap, nosed over into a snowbank and marooned its two crewmen with the others...