Word: pinon
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Candy from the Sky. From Flagstaff, Ariz., eastward to Fruitland, N. Mex., and from the pinon groves of Utah southward to the stands of saguaro cactus near the Mexican border, the six-state area last week dug out of disaster. The roar of plow and plane engines resounded as Southwesterners raced to clear the roads and rescue the stranded before fresh blizzards came sweeping down, as U.S. weathermen had predicted. The known dead totaled 15, most of them on the Navajo Reservation, which covers an area nearly as large as Ireland. Arizona state officials feared that more may have frozen...
Some Southwesterners, in the harsh, half-forgotten tradition of the Old West, refused to be awed by the natural disaster. Speaking of the eight deaths on the Navajo Reservation, Presbyterian Missionary Harold Borhauer, 45, said: "I bury more than that at the opening of the pinon season"-the autumn harvest of protein-rich pinon nuts, during which Indians have been known to die of respiratory ailments contracted in the chilly mountains. Adee Dodge, a Navajo painter, added a peculiarly Indian note of resignation: "We publicly thank all the dear gods of this world for having caused such a windfall...