Word: snow
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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There was fresh snow on the Rockies last week, and early-morning temperatures fell to freezing at President Eisenhower's Denver retreat. But as the mercury dropped outside, Ike seemed to be warming up under the collar for the fall political campaign. He endorsed a plan to distribute around the U.S. motion pictures of his Los Angeles speech a fortnight ago, in which he bluntly called for the election of a Republican Congress. He also decided to turn a simple "get-out-the-vote" TV-radio appearance this week into another appeal for a G.O.P. Congress, and he will...
...creep into their minds. The students see patterns of dots or lines. Then, as the empty hours drag on, livelier visions appear. They may see rows of little yellow men with black caps and open mouths, or a procession of squirrels with sacks on their backs marching across the snow. The students have reported seeing prehistoric animals, weird cities, a pair of disembodied hands coming out of the ground. One student saw a set of gigantic false teeth floating down a river on a raft...
...started to climb Mt. Fox but were forced to turn back because of bad weather--a mixture of snow, rain and fog," Gerhard said yesterday. "At 5:30 p.m. we were descending a gully of dirt and rocks when Jim yelled a warning and I looked up and saw hundreds of rocks falling down the gully, moving at a very high speed...
...Vernal (pop. 3,000), Utah, where he also edited a weekly newspaper. When he was 33, he was forced to return to the farm for six years because of stomach ulcers. The ailment left effects that have plagued him ever since. During the first attack his hair turned snow-white. Says he: "I've been an old man since...
Pulling Tony out was another proposition. Near the top he caught on a bulge in the snow wall; he could reach no foothold. He was soaked and cold and tired. Once they got him almost high enough to touch his pack, but when dark came, the men on top gave up. Their strength was gone, and Tony still hung in the crevasse. All they could do was keep on talking. They heard Tony's last words-which no one remembers-some time near midnight...