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Word: snow (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Burn! Burn!). Seized with a dreadful presentiment, the mother dipped holy water and sprinkled the stranger. The Devil-for it was he-turned hideous, jumped to the ceiling, then ran right through the stone wall and vanished in a sulphurous pall. Outside, where the horse had stood, the snow was melted for 100 yards around...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CANADA: The Handsome Dancer | 11/24/1952 | See Source »

Cool Heads. In Winchester, N.H., the candidates for town moderator included Forest Frost and Stanley Snow...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Nov. 24, 1952 | 11/24/1952 | See Source »

...front in Korea, the first snow fell. Troops were being issued the last of their winter equipment, and the Eighth Army quartermaster announced:. "No American Army, anywhere, ever began a winter better equipped or clothed . . ." In Washington, President Truman issued his annual Thanksgiving Proclamation: ". . . This year it is especially fitting that we offer a, prayer of gratitude for the spirit of unity which binds together all parts of our country and makes us one nation indivisible...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE NATION: After the Vote | 11/17/1952 | See Source »

...quietest day in nearly a month came to the Sniper-Triangle area. A few U.N. planes strafed Chinese positions back of the front lines. The first snow of the winter came softly down...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BATTLE OF KOREA: Nightmare | 11/17/1952 | See Source »

ABOVE the entrance to the specially built 8,000-seat "tabernacle," a banner proclaims: BILLY GRAHAM'S GREATER ALBUQUERQUE CRUSADE. Despite the threatening windy weather which has dusted the nearby Sandia Mountains with the season's first snow, some 7,000 people are already waiting in the steel and tar-paper structure-the largest indoor gathering ever assembled in Albuquerque. A Plymouth sedan drives up, and out of it steps the Rev. William Franklin (Billy) Graham, showman, salesman, pressagent, preacher- the hottest Protestant soul-saver since the late Billy Sunday quit the sawdust trail. Albuquerque last week...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: PERSONALITY | 11/17/1952 | See Source »

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