Word: snow
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Meanwhile, in groups large & small, many Leftist Spanish soldiers came half-famished through the crags of the Pyrenees, stumbling over crests white with eternal snow (see cut). They straggled down the valleys, handed their guns to French frontier guards, entered refugee camps where there was no champagne or speckled trout, only spring water and stew dipped steaming from a bucket. Unsympathetic with these soldiers who had stopped fighting, pugnacious Novelist Ernest Hemingway filed a hard-boiled dispatch from Leftist Spain's sunny seacoast: "In the far north, under the shadow of the Pyrenees, General Franco's troops have...
...SNOW ON THE EQUATOR-H. W. Tilman -Macmillan...
...because she liked the things we like; animals and green fields and wishing wells. And she had nice friends, simple people, a relief from the kind nice follow you see around the Yard. She was "different," and we liked her, and we'll be on hand to welcome Snow White when she pulls into the University this morning...
...wandered down the mountainside. They learned that his car was still parked near Mazama Lodge, that he had not reported for work Monday morning. Next day the Mazama Club trudged up Mt. Hood again with little hope of finding Russell Gueffroy-under 19 inches of fresh powder snow...
After a fruitless 24 hours, the party stumbled on Gueffroy's skis. By prodding with bamboo poles through the new surface snow, searchers were able to tell where his feet had broken through the crust of the old snow. So they followed his trail, every few feet digging down to the crust to confirm their soundings. All that day and half the next they followed his confused, straggling steps deep into Sand Canyon...