Word: snow
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...White Death, as the valley folk call it, seemed to claim its victims by the wildest caprice. One woman, buried for ten hours in the ruins of her kitchen, passed the time by telling fairy tales to one of her daughters. Another daughter lay dead and buried in the snow just beneath them. A woman of 70 was swept into the icy River Lutz and rescued from the shore more than two days later. But near by, a peasant, wearily plodding across the fields, saw his house, his wife, his mother and his three children all swept to oblivion...
...Godfrey demanded: "I wonder who the guy is . . . Wonder who that could be? I wonder if he likes his job? Maybe he doesn't like what he's doing, huh? Maybe he should get out of this business, huh? Maybe he should take up shoveling snow-we'll see if we can't arrange that." But the charge of "flat-hatting"*against aging (50) Airman Godfrey was not so easy to dismiss as an errant engineer. The charge was made by Fred...
...breaking numbers of watchers into theaters on two continents; as a choreographer, he has ballets in the repertories of every top company in the Western world. Last week, on a night of Eskimo weather, his company opened its winter season in Manhattan. Taxis were hard to find; the swirling snow was ankle-deep even in Times Square. But there were few empty seats at the ballet's large (capacity: 3,010) City Center theater. The place was packed by an audience that buzzed and chattered with anticipation. They had come to see the most discussed ballet company...
Died. Walter Edwin ("The Professor") Peck, 62, onetime authority on English poets, turned leading intellectual of Manhattan's Bowery; of a heart attack; after he was found in a snow-filled Bowery doorway. Educated at Hamilton and Columbia, he got his Ph.D. at Oxford, became an assistant professor at Hunter College. In 1929, after winning critics' acclaim with a two-volume biography of Shelley, Professor Peck saw his academic career blow up in a tabloid scandal. Suing for separation, his wife accused him of leading an "unbelievably immoral life," named a Hunter student among five corespondents. Ousted from...
...intense cold, frozen into immobility ... [Yet] this labyrinth of broken ice is moving, its surface changing." High over the monumental, 2,000-foot icefall, with its treacherously shifting crevasses and its crashing, house-high blocks of ice, stands a greater obstacle-a steep slope of ice and snow rising a vertical distance of 4,000 feet. Beyond that lies the last and toughest 3,000-foot rise to the highest point on the surface of the earth...