Word: blizzarded
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Everyone knew THE Blizzard was coming, but they came to the Beanpot anyway. Over 15,000. When Gene Purdy scored less than two minutes into overtime to vault Harvard past the Huskies, 4-3, severe travellers advisories were already in effect on the highways. I caught the last cab out of North Station, and it cost me $10.00 to make the two mile trip to Cambridge...
...four anxious hockey teams, four tense hockey games: one winner, three losers. A hockey cathedral, Boston Garden, which first opened its doors to the sport when Calvin Coolidge was in the White House, rattled by the din of 15,000 fanatics and an occasional passing Green Line hulk outside. Blizzard optional. The Beanpot...
...those Beanpot classics they'll talk about when the next generation of Burkes and Laus and O'Dwyers and Antetomasos meet on Garden ice on the first two Mondays in February. As nine o'clock approaches, all the ingredients are there--except perhaps the snow. But remember, the blizzard was optional.CrimsonNevin I. ShalitHarvard's JIM TURNER...
Subdued by the first blizzard of winter, Kabul was regaining a semblance of normality. Soviet convoys no longer growled through the narrow streets at dawn. Curio shops on Chicken Street reopened for business. The capital's telephones were functioning once more, and cross-country buses were running again. But the city was not the same. Soviet officers and political cadres were virtually in charge of the Defense and Interior ministries. Most large police stations now had live-in Soviet advisers. Just outside the city limits more than 16,000 Soviet soldiers continued...
...terminals at the Los Angeles Marriott Hotel, where most of the journalists were staying. Each day league publicists churned out highlights of the coaches' press conferences and quotes from leading players. During the game, the league p.r. staff was geared to provide play-by-play summaries and a blizzard of statistics, and planned to produce 15 legal-sized pages of player quotes within hours of the final gun. Newcomers were left slackjawed. Says Mike Tierney of the St. Petersburg (Fla.) Times. "You could cover this thing without ever leaving the hotel...