Word: snowstorms
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That night and next morning, German expeditionary forces steamed into Narvik, Trondheim, Stavanger, Bergen, Oslo. At Narvik German destroyers coming in through a snowstorm sank two old Norse coast defense ships at their moorings and one armed British ship, before they could fire a shot. At all other ports except Oslo and Kristiansand, landings were made without fighting...
...without violence or total freedom. The Irish Prime Minister made a St. Patrick's Day radio speech to the U. S. in which, as usual, he briskly criticized the British Government. New York City's numerous and enthusiastic Irish defiantly paraded up Fifth Avenue against a blinding snowstorm. And the period of great expectations moved to Easter Week, a time of the year which can be and has been most productive of Irish history. It may be moved still further forward, but World War II may well bring a turning point, an end of a 300-year...
...snowstorm swept over Finland as the week began. It grounded Russian aviation, slowed Russian mechanized attack, made the Russian infantry advance half blind. Behind the front the Russians were busy keeping their supply lines open, and this slowed down their advance. But still the Red Army came...
...search for Collick dragged on and a snowstorm wetted down mob spirit, tension in Worcester County relaxed...
...paper contained stories about oil heaters that had exploded, people who had been hurt in falls, gallant old Frederick Sullens, editor of the Jackson, Miss. Daily News, refused to be downcast, summed up a lot of Southern feeling: "No form of weather is more fascinating than a heavy snowstorm," he wrote. "To be moving about in the open when the great fat flakes are falling is something to delight the soul. ... A beautiful woman snugly clad on a snowy day is a delight to tired eyes-more attractive by far than any nymph in a bathing suit. The wind whips...