Word: snow
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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With that he threw on his coat, grabbed the book and his car keys and left the room. As he emerged from the entryway Vag was happy to see that the snow had stopped. He started up the block toward his modest coupe...
...friends struggling to push a Pontiac convertible out of a snowbound parking space. "Sure," he said and braced himself against the rear fender. With a mighty heave they pushed the car free. It sped off down the street, though not before it had sprayed a thick stream of wet snow over Vag's only clean pants...
...slowly shook the snow off his trousers. "O.K., I guess," he murmured and again took a position behind a rear fender, this time attached to a battered pre-war Ford. Throwing his weight behind the car as the driver gunned the motor, Vag was immediately enveloped in a cloud of oily black exhaust. But he clung valiantly to his post and the car edged slowly into the middle of the street. Long after the others had zoomed off to Wellesley, Vag was still standing in the empty parking space, coughing carbon monoxide and shaking another load of snow...
Both squads, bogged down by snow, did not reach Cambridge on the return trip until 4:00 yesterday morning...
Yesterday's blinding snowstorm tied up air and motor traffic along the southern New England coast and buried Greater Boston in more than six inches of snow for the second time within ten days...