Word: snow
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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According to Brooks, "the pattern of November may usually be expected to continue on into winter. At present there is on snow cover for hundreds of miles to the north. Even Mt. Washington is not snow covered and there is daily automobile traffic to the summit. There is no white surface to reflect the sunshine and keep the air cold by day and there is no insulating layer of snow to prevent the warm November heat in the saturated ground from reaching the air readily...
Lindbergh ordered one member of the party full speed down the mountain for help. As the sun went down, they cut ice blocks to make a rude shelter against the wind in the 11,000-ft.-high snow fields. For ten hours Lindbergh and other members of the party took turns at artificial respiration...
...Crimson sailors trailed GWU throughout the three-day meet which was held despite snow and freezing temperatures...
...Rises. The helicopter?by virtue of its ability to rise straight up, to hover motionless in midair, to fly sideways, backward and forward, to feel its way through fog or snow at five miles an hour if necessary, to stop quicker than an automobile, and to lower itself vertically into clearings hardly bigger than the circle described by its rotor blades?began proving itself a priceless beast of aerial burden in the early days of the Korean war. In the last 36 months it has altered the whole world's concepts of transport, and has made itself a unique, irreplaceable...
...quality as unsettling as any work by such abstract expressionists as Jackson Pollock or Willem de Kooning. A closer look justified the big tempera's title-Field Gate. In the foreground were two rickety gateposts, from which a faintly discernible path looped up and away over a vast, snow-swept hillside rising to an eerily shifting, storm-filled sky. Meticulously building this wide, wild scene, grass blade by grass blade, Wyeth suggested the looming forces of nature in an impassioned portrait of Earth and Winter...