Word: blizzarding
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...blizzard beat with glass-rattling fury on the steamy windows of Franklin Doughty 's comfortable South Minneapolis home. In the living room, Insurance Man Doughty reluctantly left a television basketball game, tramped upstairs to tell ten-year-old Janet and tousled Tommy, 8, to turn off Fibber McGee and Molly and quiet down. It was almost 9 o'clock, said Doughty, and high time for sleep...
...Russia and Turkey a cold wave swept into the Middle East, bringing with it a blizzard that raged for 48 hours. Over the Dead Sea and the arid Negeb desert fell a dense blanket of snow, a phenomenon never before recorded in modern Middle East history. Turkey, Syria, Lebanon, Jordan and Cyprus were also hit by the storm, but the infant state of Israel was caught least prepared and suffered most...
...usual, its appearance brought a blizzard of complaints howling down upon Editor Gosta Blomberg and the offices of Sweden's tax collectors. Thousands of outraged taxpayers complained of being undercharged and hence deprived of a listing among the aristocracy of the higher brackets. Others, equally outraged, swore that they had never made that kind of money in their lives. One distressed soul had even quietly tried to bribe Editor Blomberg into leaving his name out of the register. If his wife learned his real income, pleaded the unhappy taxpayer, it would cost him at least a new mink coat...
...foot cliff in British Columbia. Below him was a 500-foot sheer drop to a pile of avalanche rock and above him a 200-foot granite face; he had nothing to stand on but a rock ledge two feet wide. The sun had set and a blizzard was tearing about him, and there was only one thing Dunn conld do. He rolled out his sleeping bag and went...
...left. The thrills are much the same either way. At the top, the Alpinist may experience what one veteran climber called "the feeling of release and mystic union upon reaching the goal." All climbers do not attain that experience. Last month, eight climbers were caught in a blizzard near the top and froze to death...