Word: wind
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...country's soft air of calm was deceptive. Like every Bavarian city and village, Munich went mad last week. While wind and snow whistled through the scarred streets and hollow buildings, along the avenues and through bright windows could be seen gaudy devils and silvery angels, Spanish ladies with black mantillas, Egyptian pharaohs in gold brocade, Hawaiian dancers in tights, bra and lei. Jazz bands blared in every cabaret and public dancehall...
Already through the scores of refugee camps dotting Bavaria's country there drifts a bitter wind of social hatred and malice. Families herded into camps snarl with venom against the cozy villages near by. "If only the Russians would come for a few weeks," said one old refugee from East Prussia. "It would warm my heart to see the Bavarians thrown out of their homes...
Great Blizzard. The cold in the west was not the bright, dry cold that westerners pretend to enjoy so much. It snowed & snowed & snowed. Bitter cold and roaring wind turned the snowstorms into blizzards. The great blizzard of early January was the worst that ever hit the high-plains states. In South Dakota the Black Hills region got 50 inches of snow; Deadwood got 77 inches. Total snowfall for January in western Nebraska averaged 70 inches...
...failure of the westerlies had the opposite effect in the east. A high-pressure area (the Bermuda High) was unusually strong and hung persistently off the coast. The wind circulating clockwise around it brought warm, moist air from over the Gulf Stream. Unchecked by the westerlies, it penetrated far into the interior, keeping the western cold away and giving the eastern U.S. a balmy "maritime" winter...
Saturday Peroy's squad will wind up its intercollegiate competition when it plays host to Yale in the Indoor Athletic Building. The team lost to Yale last year by a hotly-disputed one point, and have been aiming for this match all season...