Word: snugly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...before they set up their tents, the Russians radioed the bad news out. From North Cape, Siberia, 155 mi. away, 60 dog teams mushed off to Professor Schmidt's aid through a screaming blizzard. Rescue planes waited in their hangars for the blizzard's end. Next day, snug on his ice floe, Professor Schmidt told the world: "The sky cleared last night and we took bearings from the stars. We are 130 kilometers [81 mi.] from land. All are healthy and full of energy...
...peasants roared "Heil Hitler!" as coatless Adolf drove on to his snug mountain hideaway at nearby Obersälzburg...
Down from the icy Mt. Washington range rushed a freezing winter gale Sunday night before last, howling among the eaves of tight little New Hampshire homesteads. Seated around their snug fireplaces, winter-bound New Hampshiremen listened to their radios. Those who were listening to gabby Walter Winchell's air column were in for a surprise. As a rule. Columnist Winchell confines himself to reporting who is whose "heart," what romances have "gone phffft" on "the Stem." Unexpectedly assuming the role of kingmaker, he jolted his listeners in the Granite State by announcing: "The New York Herald Tribune is plotting...
Other missionaries got messages too. In a snug hacienda in Caracas, Venezuela, Presbyterian Dorothy Parnell got "from mother and father and Sister Harriet" this message: "Five minutes after you have heard this message read Hebrews 13:20-21. We will read it in unison with you though the seas roll between us." The Parnells read...
...great flakes Moscow's first heavy snow of the season was softly falling. Red Army divisions, snug in their ankle-length winter overcoats and turnip helmets, filled the vast Red Square. All Moscow turned out to see who would bear the ashes of Comrade Katayama to their niche in the Kremlin wall. Millions of eyes fastened on a swart, powerfully built man in a long greatcoat who strode bareheaded through the snowstorm: Chief Pallbearer Josef Stalin...