Word: snow
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Snow-Under. As the campaigners whooped if up, the Eisenhower organization's national manager, Massachusetts Senator Henry Cabot Lodge Jr., was anything but overconfident. He knew that Governor Sherman Adams and some other big-name Republicans would be elected as Ike-pledged delegates. He also knew that the polls showed Eisenhower running ahead in the preference race. But he realized what many an outsider did not: New Hampshire is not safe Ike territory just because top Republican brass of the state are in his corner. In the lower echelons of the G.O.P. organization, there is many a Taftman...
...passed team, in a frenzy of competitive spirit, redoubles its efforts to take the lead. The driver's commands are simple and horsy: "Gee" for right, "Haw" for left, "Whoa" (more hopefully than convincingly) for stop. A steel-toothed prong, controlled by a foot pedal, digs into the snow to make the "Whoa" stick, but most drivers believe that the grinding noise of the brake, rather than its retarding effect, is the only thing that will stop an eager 35-to 85-lb. sled...
...began as Douglas was eying Viveca on a Vienna street: without warning, a solid-seeming brick wall began to billow out like laundry in a high wind. Moments later, while Douglas and Lindfors were waltzing soulfully inside a cozy restaurant, they were abruptly doused with a thick flurry of snow. Hustling his lady through the blizzardy streets, where the cornmeal snow fell on cue, Douglas swept her into his bachelor den. As they shed their coats, snow cascaded to the floor. Next morning, when they came downstairs, the room was still snowy...
Orphans of the Storm Coast Guard headquarters in Boston braced for battle as the tanker Fort Mercer, 29 miles off Cape Cod's Pollock Rip lightship, sent out an S O S. The worst nor'easter of the winter was burying New England in gale-blown snow and raising pure white hell offshore. Blinding snow, 50-ft. waves, and winds up to 90 miles an hour smashed the distressed tanker as the Coast Guard cutter Yakutat and the Navy cargo ship Short Splice hunted her. Just after noon, she broke...
...enraged by this time. He climbed out of the car and slammed the door so hard that the snow on the roof slid off on the ground. "Maybe Durocher was right," he mused as he started back to his room, "nice guys finish last...