Word: fells
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Stalled Cities. While Westerners waded, one of the most sudden and violent storms in memory swept north up a wide tier of Eastern states. Blizzards almost completely paralyzed Ohio and Pennsylvania. Twenty inches of snow fell on Cleveland, 29 inches on Youngstown, 18 on Akron, 28 on Pittsburgh, 38 on Washington, Pa. The Pennsylvania Turnpike and virtually all other roads in both states were blocked by enormous drifts, airports closed, trains stopped or ran hours behind schedule. In Ohio, 20,000 cars were abandoned on the highways...
...South shivered in some of the lowest November temperatures ever recorded. Snow fell in Kentucky, Tennessee, Alabama and Georgia: the thermometer went down to 3 in Atlanta, 19 in Baltimore, 17 in Richmond, i below in Nashville, 17 in Charleston, 2 below in Asheville, N.C. Florida's oft-bedeviled 'citrus growers toiled with smudge pots in a battle to save their perishable crops...
...second day, the Reds' resistance stiffened. They counterattacked in darkness. The R.O.K. 8th Division fell back six miles, and other South Koreans were stalled south of Taechon...
Full Circuit. In Washington, D.C., an electric iron burned through the ironing board, started a fire, fell to the floor, melted a lead water pipe which put out the fire...
...anywhere from 15 to 20 points for most of the game, proved that determination is a fine thing, but height is needed to back it up. Tallest of the Techmen was center Hank Hohorst at six four--he made only two field goals and took only those rebounds that fell...