Word: blizzarding
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...breath, the Townsend Plan, a wild-eyed scheme to pay oldsters $200 a month with the understanding that each month's pension be spent in full within 30 days. But nobody took him seriously. Big drive of the "nonpartisan" Stop Sinclair movement took the form of a blizzard of pamphlets proclaiming: "Out Of His Own Mouth Shall He Be Judged." Material was culled from Author Sinclair's iconoclastic shelf of writings over a period of 30 years. These were sorted and directed toward groups in which they would do Sinclair most harm : Catholics, Christian Scientists, Mormons, University...
Released,Lonnie instantly butts his kinky head into more trouble by complaining to Mr. Walcott, head of Oceanic Stevedore Co., that he and the other Negroes have been given short pay. Gruff Mr. Walcott (grizzled Dodson Mitchell, who last played in the 14th Street theatre during the Blizzard of '88) strikes him for his impudence, tells him that he is "a bad nigger...
...years of sealing Captain Kean has seen wooden sailing ships crunched like peanuts in the jaws of the ice floes. He has sent his men hopping out over the ice and later, when a blizzard blew up, known that some of them would not come back. He has seen survivors carried in blue and stiff as corpses. And each year for 66 years he has seen swilers trudge happily back, dragging their sculps in a long crimson trail across the glare-white...
...started to carry the airmail, Lieut. Durward 0. Lowry of the 94th Pursuit Squadron, Selfridge Field (Mich.), took off at 4 a. m. from Chicago for Cleveland. An icy blast whistled over his open cockpit and below he could see the shimmer of deep drifting snow left by the blizzard. When his radio went dead he had to fight by guesswork along an unfamiliar course. Then a chill fog enveloped him and his plane started to fall. Frantically he tore open its mail compartment, began to dump sack after sack over the side. A farmer near Deshler, Ohio...
Next day a raging blizzard whipped Dartmouth's flags flying at half-mast for the saddest day in its 164 years. Grave-faced students plodded to their classes. They talked little. Asked for a press statement, President Ernest Martin Hopkins replied. "There is nothing that can be said that can be of any comfort to anyone...