Word: snow
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...long bus ride, she did so "on a two-week basis." But the weeks somehow turned into months, and the months into years. Gradually she came to know all about her passengers, and each of them in turn began to call her "Kate" or "Katie." In spite of snow and blowouts (20 the first year), no one has ever rebelled, nor has a single passenger quit on her because of the long voyage each...
Legend has it that two 18th century Spanish monks first found and named the 14,000-ft. mountain with the cross, formed by two great snow-packed crevices. After Jackson's picture made the mountain celebrated, pilgrims and plain tourists came by the thousands. Eventually, just 25 years ago, President Herbert Hoover proclaimed the mountain a national monument. With due ceremony, Colorado last week began to celebrate the monument's 25th anniversary...
...spirit to the Mount of the Holy Cross." On the City Hall carillon, Faith of Our Fathers and other suitable anthems were played. The Rocky Mountain News wrote: "The hand of the Creator wrinkled the brow of this majestic peak in a symmetrical cruciform that cradles the ice and snow of ages . . ." An apologetic mountaineer heard the bells, read the paper, and called the News to say that something had been overlooked. The left arm cross has been crumbling away from slides and erosion. Four years ago, when the cross was no longer apparent, the National Parks Service recommended...
...hardly any weight, but the 1,200 Ibs. had plainly hardened. The dark grey had begun to lighten around the flanks; the head was now more on the white side of grey than on the black (if he lives long enough, the Dancer will turn snow white). Standing, he had a massive, granite look?a sculptured masterpiece waiting for a pedestal...
...plays host to three pixilated old men who have lost their lodgings. Busy as the dwarfs in Snow White, they ply him with mystic mumbo jumbo and a brand of higher Dianetics called "time alive." by which Ravenstreet can relive key events in his past with the added wisdom of hindsight. Under the influence of time alive, Ravenstreet realizes that he should have married an adoring mistress rather than the boss's daughter, and that Mervil and associates are evil men. anxious to clamp a power-mad elite on drug-happy masses (the theories of the '30s reappear...