Word: snow
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Snow still lay in the Rockies, New England, and a tier of states across the northern border. But sap was rising early to branch and bud; despite flurries of wintry weather, there had already been days of sun in the coldest states, when gutters tinkled musically to streams from melting drifts. Many Vermont farmers had buckets out in their maple-sugar groves. Though Lake Erie is normally frozen solid far into March, the Nicholson Transit Co. freighter James Watt made a trial run from Detroit to Toledo last week, and found only one insignificant patch of drifting...
Cutter racing is a mountain-horseman's answer to winter. For 15 years the ranchers in a 200-mile circle in western Wyoming and eastern Idaho have been holding rugged races over the snow, and they wouldn't trade them for all the flamingos at Miami's Hialeah. Their cutter is usually an old, lightweight sleigh stripped of its seats and fitted with polished steel runners. The ranchers hook their cutters to a pair of fast horses, climb aboard, and light out full tilt down a quarter-mile straightaway of hard-packed snow. Some drivers...
...with "inside" stories of Booth's drunkenness (in fact, after his first wife's death he rarely drank). But by now he had made himself almost oblivious of the outside world ("I rarely know who's President," he said). One who saw him trudging through the snow "like Hamlet in a greatcoat" said: "I have never yet beheld a sadder [face...
...Birobijan as a Jewish national homeland, while the UN was still fighting over who would get Palestine, Stalin hoped to alienate the large remnant of Europe's Jews from the Western world. Thousands did go to Birobijan, a vast expanse of tundra whose only abundant natural resource is snow. They have not been heard from since...
Edward L. Snow--Dudley House Committee, Chairman; House Dance Committee; House Chairmen's Council; Student Council Committee on Dudley; Social Relations Society; Junior Usher; House Athletics