Word: snow
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Unseasonably warm rains washed out the '56 hockey game against the Blue, while no snow forced the Yardling skiers to cancel their meet with Putney School...
Airliners from other countries soon joined the R.A.F. in flying the heavy bales of bags to the British flood areas, where trucks and volunteers stood ready in the cold and snow to fill and pile them up. More than 11 million bags were on hand by the time the spring tides rose again at week's end. Said Wing Commander Masterman, who organized Operation King Canute, as the sandbag-lift was called: "It's been a delight. It shows the thing works in peacetime as well...
...Clooney Sisters, aged 6 and 3, made their debut from his electioneering platform, and wowed the voters with a performance of Home on the Range. In any case, the ham in Rosemary was smoked out early: she was in fourth grade when she played the wicked queen in Snow White and terrified the audience with her intensity...
...back. "Mr. Dodgson would have thought it hardly necessary " he wrote, "to point out that the curator whose duty it is to provide the best goods he can for the Common Room, cannot possibly accept presents from any tradespeople concerned. He thinks it only fair to warn Messrs. Snow that any repetition of such attention may seriously affect their provision as wine merchants dealt with by the Common Room...
...parenthesis. He prized economy of line as much as the Chinese masters, but where they were flattish and fluent, he was spacious and staccato. Simply by the power of his pen, Rembrandt could make plain paper take on the bright leaden hue of winter sky stretching heavy over snow-muffled acres. As easily it seems, as another man would scrawl his name, he sketched fence, farmhouse trees and far-off mill into deep, cold stillness...