Word: blizzarding
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...Chicago, much-debated Soprano Kirsten Flagstad (did-she-or-did-she-not-collaborate?) made her postwar operatic debut in Tristan und Isolde, sang them into the aisles, got a blizzard of bravos and cheers, eleven curtain calls, not a tomato from audience or critics...
Berendsen: Cannot anything be done to relieve some of the arctic blizzard to which some of the members at this end of the table are exposed...
...Goodbye, good luck and please remember our 15 wives," proclaimed the placard. Printed in Russian and held aloft at the London airport by five suppliant Britons, it left the 20 departing members of the Soviet good will mission to Britain as puzzled as the blizzard of questions they had faced at a press conference two days before. "The great interest that is being shown by the British press rather surprises us," said Vasily V. Kuznetsov, the mission's leader...
Died. Eugene E. Mapes, 86, onetime president of Brooks Brothers, Manhattan's elegant, tradition-draped men's clothing store; in Manhattan. In March 1888, on the day of the Big Blizzard, Mapes-then a Brooks clerk-made the day's only sale: a pair of white flannels to a southbound vacationer...
Laurltz Melchior, the Met's heroic tenor, fought heroically through a blizzard to sing in Bloomington, Ind., but it was no use. He tried to fly from Chicago, but the planes were grounded. So he set out by auto. An hour later he was stuck in a snowdrift. Bloomington presently heard from him by phone, too late. He had discovered that he was fighting his way toward Bloomington, Ill., 160 miles away from Indiana's Bloomington...