Word: snowdrift
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Weathered In. In Reno, when his sedan stalled in a snowdrift, Robert Gibbs hopped out, trampled the hood down to the engine, ripped off the ventilator flaps, pulled off the door handles, smashed all the windows, walked away...
...clattering combines northward in the annual harvest of winter wheat. The Shorthorns and Herefords lumbered lazily across the Great Plains; 13 million new beef calves bellowed at the smoky bite of the branding iron. Down South, in the weeks before the cotton bloomed white, stretching like a giant snowdrift from North Carolina through Texas, there were watermelons and peaches to be picked, small grain crops to be brought in, tobacco to be topped and suckered, beef and dairy cattle to be tended...
News, the county sheriff found the body of a murdered woman in a snowdrift outside the city. Presbrey recognized her as Elsie Lanage, a friend of his own father-in-law. Presbrey took his suspicions first to his city editor, then to the sheriff. The Daily News got the inside story, and Pres-brey's father-in-law got a life term at Minnesota's Stillwater prison for murder...
Laurltz Melchior, the Met's heroic tenor, fought heroically through a blizzard to sing in Bloomington, Ind., but it was no use. He tried to fly from Chicago, but the planes were grounded. So he set out by auto. An hour later he was stuck in a snowdrift. Bloomington presently heard from him by phone, too late. He had discovered that he was fighting his way toward Bloomington, Ill., 160 miles away from Indiana's Bloomington...
Sirs: Was it not Parson Weems (TIME, Oct. 2) who invented or at least popularized the equally famous lie about Washington saying his prayers in a snowdrift...