Word: whiteout
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...told, the three top aides last week logged 44 briefings and interviews that, contrary to usual practice, were all on-the-record. A summit that had begun with a news blackout ended up producing a whiteout of pronouncements, amplifications and amended remarks...
...m.p.h. gusts of one of those demonic snowstorms that have helped claim the lives of at least 50 climbers on Mount Hood since the turn of the century. Overwhelmed suddenly by the fury of snow, the bitterness of the wind and the blindness of a near zero-visibility whiteout, the climbers came to a desperate, shivering halt. In a frantic effort to save themselves, they crammed their bodies, sardine close, into a small snow cave...