Word: snow
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...first time in his five years as coach, Bruce Munro's soccer team has failed to beat M.I.T. Amid scattered snow flurries the Engineers managed to eke out a 1 to 1 tie against the Crimson on Briggs Field yesterday...
Dick Clasby worked in a contact scrimmage for the first time this week as the varsity football team went through a long drill in a light snow and near-freezing temperatures yesterday at Soldiers Field...
...those days, even the Bolsheviks admitted that China had some rights there. Said No. I Chinese Communist Mao Tse-tung to Correspondent Edgar (Red Star Over China) Snow in 1936: "When the people's revolution has been victorious in China, the Outer Mongolian Republic will automatically become a part of the Chinese federation at their own will." But when the Reds finally seized China in 1949, Mao had to eat his own words. On Moscow's orders, Red China renounced all claim to Outer Mongolia...
Dickens is dead-and who cares? Dickens was an old-fashioned sentimentalist who roared with laughter at his own comic caricatures and wept buckets over his pathetic children and heroines whiter (and frailer) than the driven snow. But Dickens had gusto. So did Mark Twain; so did Kipling; so did H. G. Wells...
...Chinese oracle" ordered Crowley and his handful of disciples to Sicily. Here, Crowley, his ears pierced and hung with rings, "painted and wrote . . . smoked opium, sniffed snow . . . ate grass (hashish), and [took] laudanum, veronal, and anhalonium." He also tried to referee the frequent battles which took place among his concubines...