11.   She needed all her powers of concentration to stop herself from slipping on the icy road.

12.   Icy roads were the sole cause of the accident.

13.   The truck jackknifed on the icy road.

14.   The truck skidded on the icy road.

15.   Horses drawing guns slithered helplessly on the icy road, ambulances full of wounded skidded into ditches.

16.   Asked about dangers, they recite tales of icy roads, or concerns about ticks and mice carrying disease.

17.   Blame the icy roads.

18.   A host of stores in the Atlanta area did not open on Saturday because icy roads kept workers as well as customers in their homes.

19.   A school bus skids off an icy road and sinks into a frozen lake, taking with it the children of a tiny, once neighborly Adirondack town.

20.   City drivers who brave icy roads to go skiing each weekend know the ritual as a nasty rite of passage befalling city dwellers.