Word: snowes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...clock, central Manhattan subway stations were jammed with pushing, gesticulating throngs. Shoe stores were invaded by snow-powdered hikers in search of rubbers and galoshes. Hotels were besieged; and a backwash of the stranded headed for bars, all-night movies and the apartments of friends. Meanwhile the Fire Department was struck by the horrible thought-it couldn't move its trucks. Its engine-house gongs rang out the "five sixes" (all firemen report for duty). It got radio stations to ask the citizenry kindly not to let their houses burn down...
...whole city took a critical, personal interest in the massive task of digging which began the next day. Luckily the snow had fallen just before the weekend. But there were 99,000,000 tons of snow to be removed, 10,000 automobiles to be exhumed, and a task force of 20,000 municipal employees marshaled for the job. Estimated expense to the city for snow removal...
...only New Yorkers who really seemed downcast by the big snow were members of a highly vocal organization known as "The Blizzard Men of '88." For 59 years they had been making speeches, writing essays and fattening fables about the greatest city's greatest storm. But at week's end they were only talking about the second biggest storm, and nobody was listening...
...peace vote in 1948, the more definitely the world will know that the U.S. is not behind the bipartisan reactionary war policy which is dividing the world into two armed camps and making inevitable the day when American soldiers will be lying in their arctic suits in the Russian snow...
...foehn* is a warm, dry wind that tumbles, sometimes with landslide suddenness, down the northern slopes of the Bavarian Alps. In winter and early spring, as it sweeps across Bavaria, it melts the snow and brings to the landscape a strange, bluish haze. German mountain-folk hold to an ancient belief that the foehn also brings sickness and melancholia in its blast...