Word: thaws
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...ways of coping are as varied as the crisis. With so many cars marooned in the snow, like beasts stricken in their tracks, people ply the icy city streets in snowmobiles. Railroad engineers thaw out frozen whistles with flares and blowtorches. A Burger King in Camden County, N.J., is the envy of the competition. It serves customers twelve hours every day at 70° because it is heated by solar power. In Pittsburgh, a discotheque called Reflections has a sign on the door: THIS ESTABLISHMENT is WARMED BY BODY HEAT...
...closing of schools in 245 downstate Illinois communities. In Milwaukee, which has had a record 21 days of subzero weather, water mains burst or froze, creating extreme fire-fighting hazards. Amtrak canceled trains on eight major routes out of Chicago -and sent 25 cars down to New Orleans to thaw out. However, the cold did bring some blessings. Street crime was down, and three gunmen foolish enough to hold up the Cleveland Trust Co. were quickly caught when their getaway car spun its wheels futilely in the snow...
Sleepy Resignation. Handicapped by frequent foul weather over many of its domestic routes, Aeroflot provides needed transportation in a vast country where 70% of the roads are impassable during the spring thaw. Fares are cheap: only $18.23 to fly the 400 or so miles from Moscow to Leningrad (comparable fare in the U.S.: New York-Cleveland, $56). Travelers, however, are all too familiar with the price for Aeroflot's convenience: overbooking and canceled flights. Airports often resemble dormitories as hundreds of people slump in sleepy resignation, sometimes for days, without adequate dining facilities...
...crucial figure in her brother's life, not only for getting him involved in the stage in the first place, but for extracting him from innumerable women, hauling him out of debt, and even helping him to flee the country when he was wanted as a witness in the Thaw trial. Long before anyone else, she apparently recognized her brother's genius; and long after others had thrown up their arms in exasperation, she never lost faith. The tales about John Barrymore are innumerable--his wildly confident impetuousness, his financial extravagances, the alcoholism that haunted him from...
...Prisoners guilty of "all crimes or failings of political intention or of opinion." Chief among these are scores of imprisoned Spanish Communists, whose party is still illegal despite a recent thaw in relations between the government and the democratic opposition. Among the first to be released were Simón Sánchez Montero and Santiago Alvarez, two leading officials in the party hierarchy who were jailed earlier this year...