Word: snow
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...reversed. Privately he told Swiss and Swedish neutrals that he had got the best compromise he could from Nehru, but in public, Good Soldier Thimayya unflinchingly accepted responsibility for Nehru's decision. "Any agreement, General?" called out one U.N. newsman, as Thimayya sludged through Panmunjom's melting snow the day Nehru's stand was announced. "No, no agreement," he replied, "just unilateral action." "By whom?" Thimayya drummed his swagger stick against his chest: "By me." "Inalienable Right." The U.N. Command, gratified at least that its principle of voluntary non-repatriation would be upheld, replied that it would...
Laden with snow shovels, pickaxes, blankets and stretchers, German and Swiss skiers by the hundreds last week dashed across the Austrian borders at Bregenz and Feldkirch. Customs officials forgot all the usual frontier formalities as they waved them on. The shouted phrase, "We're going to Blons," was all the passport that was needed...
...deceptively mild winter that had suddenly turned vicious. Cross-Channel shipping was brought to a dead stop for two days as winds, roaring in from the Atlantic, whipped the seas into a fury. Far to the south in Italy, gondolas lay at their moorings in Venice under coverlets of snow. Even in Algeria, the snowplows were busy on the streets of Constantine...
Whirlybird Rescue. Hardest hit of all Europe, however, were the valleys of Switzerland and Austria, where only a month ago hotelkeepers, hoping for good ski weather, had despaired of the unseasonable warmth. There, the choking Staublawinen (dust avalanches), which literally drown their victims in a rush of dry, powdery snow, and the hurtling Rutschlawinen (slide avalanches), which bury their victims under sliding tons of packed snow, ice and boulders, wrought fearful havoc...
...this "separate but equal" policy, combined with large, even elaborate rooms, and proximity to the Yard and Square, does not compensate for the distinct financial disadvantage of missing breakfasts because of the distance from Claverly to most of the Houses. Sloshing through snow or rain at the crack of dawn is enough to discourage even the hungriest from having breakfast at his House. Most prefer to gulp downcoffee and doughnuts en route to class. Thus, while few Claverly men eat breakfast in the Houses, all must...