Word: snow
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...snow of the day before had turned into a driving rain. Hiss, the $20,000-a-year president of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, walked through the rain to a subway, pursued by photographers, and rode back to his apartment on Eighth Street. There his Quaker wife, Priscilla, who was also implicated by Chambers in the tragic conspiracy, waited...
...anguish amid which he has done his work. The New Yorker is a creature who feels that the weather ought to be regulated rather than predicted: there is evidence that he believes Parry controls a fiendish mechanism which causes rain whenever he plans a weekend at the beach, or snow when he parks his automobile in the street...
...Santa Claus (pop. 35), Ind.'s two leading Santa Clauses, William Koch and Milton Harris, were hoping against hope that they wouldn't have a white Christmas. Snow would keep upwards of 100,000 people from visiting their respective tourist attractions, Santa Claus Land and the Candy Palace...
Even before the kickoff in the National Football League championship this week, a driving storm had blanketed Philadelphia's Shibe Park. Gridiron markings were blotted out under four inches of snow. But television, radio and newsreel companies had paid $33,000 for rights to the game, and a postponement would have been costly. Commissioner Bert Bell ruled that first downs would be decided by referee's instinct instead of tape measure, and assigned extra judges to call out-of-bounds plays...
...Cleveland, the season's smallest crowd (22,981) braved another snowfall to watch the Buffalo Bills battle the Cleveland Browns for the All-America Football Conference championship. It wasn't much of a battle. Coach Paul Brown's Browns didn't let a little snow get in the way of their march to an undefeated season. The Buffalo Bills were understandably reluctant to get in the way of 238-lb. Negro Fullback Marion Motley, hardest running back in pro football since Bronco Nagurski. Motley didn't get warmed up until the second half. Then...