Word: snow
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...height of the Rightist counteroffensive Franco's forces were able to cut communications between the Leftist command in Teruel and its two wings. But neither side could bring sufficient reinforcements through the snow, and the Left wings held until the Rightist wave had broken...
Informed by French rustics that he could not get to Andorra through the mountain roads, buried 20 feet under snow drifts, he snorted: "If I had my null der car which cost $32,000 I'd go through these roads like a tank...
...London last week everyone was complaining "the sun has not been out since before Christmas." In Venice thermometers crawled down below freezing, stayed there for four consecutive days, while the Grand Canal froze solid. One day it cost $20,000 to clear the snow from Berlin's streets, a rare event, for special gangs of street sweepers rarely have to be employed in the German capital. But while storms and blizzards raged over all Europe last week, the greatest weather-made sensation broke on the Black...
After setting out on a hazardous, snow-covered, 19-mile lap from Shippensburg, Pa., the group has not been heard from for the first time in its trip, which commemorates the pioneer movement of 150-years...
...falls in skiing that are just as bad as in football. In football you have a long conditioning period, and the men warm up before they have physical contact. While here in skiing, people drive up to the mountains or take "snow trains," and to get up the actual mountains they use a tow. Then without any limbering up they start their downhill run. When they fall, something snaps, and there's another candidate for Stillman Infirmary...