Word: snow
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...visit to Toronto, Australian Super-miler Herb Elliott gamely tried out an unfamiliar sport, as expected ended his turn on the hickories like ski bunnies everywhere: doing an Australian crawl down under a pile of snow. Shaken but game, he scrambled woozily to his feet, diplomatically calmed the fears of his hosts with a gingerly verdict on the adventure...
Nine Lives (Norwegian). The saga of a Norwegian fighting his way through a hell of ice and snow, escaping the Nazis...
Milk punch before breakfast .. . quasi-primitive bopping ... six inches of snow ... and Sunday "Thank-God-They're-Gone" parties constitute the three-day euphoria of the traditional Indian ritual, the Dartmouth Winter Carnival...
...event lacked the dash and sparkle usually attributed to it. Many blamed this on the fact that they were in the midst of their studies (Dartmouth is now on a three term schedule and Carnival no longer takes place during inter-session) and that there was just not enough snow. Nevertheless, festivities have increased in scale since the first Carnival, whose purpose was "to provide the added attraction of women, something foremost in the minds of even the most wild and wooly woodsmen." Fred Harris, founder of the Outing Club, which is one sponsor of the weekend, believed that young...
Nine Lives. The well-told saga of a Norwegian fighting his way through a hell of ice and snow, escaping the Nazis...