Word: blizzarding
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Lies, rumors, jokes, canards, insults, obscenities, denials, bluffs, excuses, exhortations, explanations, reassurances, trial balloons and grotesque distortions continued to spew from the world's radios last week. Most of it was Axis concoctions; some of it was Allied counter-propaganda. Behind the radio barrage fell a blizzard of newspaper squibs, handbills, pamphlets, posters. In free countries men speculated aloud with laughter and curses; in Europe they whispered behind their hands in dim cafes and shuttered homes. It was a big week in the battle of babble...
Last week, in the continental cafés, around the heated swimming pools, on the ski slopes, among the Hollywood stars and millionaires, the socialites and diplomats, the rich European refugees and playboys of Sun Valley, gossip was as thick as a blizzard in the Sawtooth Mountains...
Almost as turbulent and dangerous as the two years he has spent as Ambassador to Russia was his 14-day trip back to Washington. In a howling blizzard he had flown from Kuibyshev, Russia's auxiliary capital, to Teheran in Iran. At one time his party, which included newly appointed Ambassador to the U.S. Maxim Litvinoff, was reported lost. In Teheran, Litvinoff was left behind, while Steinhardt flew on to Cairo because he had broken a tooth, and there was no good dentist short of Egypt...
...from Seattle to San Francisco, with no sign of life, no vegetation between mission stations. He learned to change his undershirt outdoors at 70° below zero, to walk and run as much as 50 miles a day behind his dogs, to build a fire in a blizzard, to pick off wolves too near the camp circle with a rifle...
...Germans were reported stalled at all points, from the blizzard-swept Mulmansk front south to the Black See, except possibly for some points on Crimes, where the momentum of their fierce assault had carried them to the outer defenses of Sevastopol...