Word: snow
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...heart. Accepting it, Dr. White made no mention of the whale. He went back to the ancient virtues. In this push-button age, he said, man is overeating and pampering himself. He should walk to work, ride a bicycle for exercise (as Dr. White still does), shovel snow up to the age of 70 or 80 if his heart is sound, and not be afraid of stairs even if his heart is no longer sound. "The life of Riley," Dr. White suspects, leads to a lot of early coronary disease, high blood pressure and diabetes...
...army of primitive horsemen could defeat civilized nations only if it kept complete discipline, constant mobility and immense hardihood. In his march through western Asia, after his conquest of China, he drove his troops over mountains 20,000 ft. high. The horses were accustomed to forage beneath the snow; the men, in extremities, would open the veins of their horses, drink someof the hot blood and then close the wounds...
...43rd Dartmouth weekend sloshes into the snow Saturday as Button's Olympic teammates Brooks Dodge and Bill Reck pace the host team's bid to cop their own skiing Championship. The racing face includes a giant down hill on Moose Mountain north of Hanover and jumping on the Indians 40 meter golf course hill in the carnival...
Despite Tuesday's storm, which deposited almost three inches of snow on the local landscape, the Boston area is experiencing an exceptionally mild winter for the second straight year, according to the Blue Hills Observatory...
Together with higher temperatures, the area received a fair share of precipitation during the first two winter months. A total of approximately 40 inches was recorded over December and January. January alone had 22 inches of snow and close to three of rain, while December had a five inch snowfall and a total of over seven inches of rain...