Word: snowstorms
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...will operate the observatory, had to endure some monumental difficulties. Construction of the $5,000,000 installation was repeatedly delayed by freezing temperatures. Vehicles often broke down on the rock-strewn road to the summit, and howling blizzards sometimes entirely blocked off lower levels of the route. One snowstorm, in fact, occurred only a few weeks before last week's formal dedication. But by far the worst problem was the thin air at the top of the volcano. Headaches, dizziness and nausea, all symptoms of oxygen deficiency, were constant companions of the work crews. Even men recruited from high...
...first administration took office to the screeching brakes of an immobilizing transit strike. Thereafter the city lost half its major daily newspapers, endured a monumental garbage strike, suffered the paralyzing aftermath of a great snowstorm, and mourned the loss of numberless school days as a result of the worst school strike in U.S. history...
...distinctive style all his own," Barnaby said. The former Olympic crew member "gets on top of his opponent and pummels him." Barnaby said. "He's a big son-of-a-gun, and he just hits hard and pushes right at his opponents. It's like expecting a snowstorm and suddenly getting hit by an avalanche...
...didn't even have enough money to take out a girl"), he moved back to his family's farm in Minnesota, and has been in the neighborhood of it ever since. His first book, Silence in the Snowy Fields, collected a group of poems as muffed as a snowstorm in midwinter. They were like quiet songs, spoken out of solitude, poems in which A Man Writes to a Part of Himself. Even then, a nervous aura of crisis crept into his work...
...temperament than is a citizen of Omaha. Manhattan is heavily populated by the East Side affluents, by poor blacks and Puerto Ricans, by youngish singles. Elsewhere in the vast, often dreary reaches of the boroughs, middle-class and working-class families predominate. A transit stoppage or a heavy snowstorm that is a minor bother or even a chance for bravado and gallantry in Manhattan can bring near paralysis in some of the outlying sections...