Word: snow
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...must face in war, Captain Hering cited the fighting withdrawal of the 1st Marine Division, with which he was serving as division surgeon, from the Changjin Reservoir to Hungnam last December. The conditions: "Thirty degrees below zero weather with no fires or warming tents, frozen C rations for food, snow for water, and the hills lined with screaming Chinese thousands for 16 bloody miles...
...Nevertheless David, "a brilliant young architect [who] had done a few big things bigly," is soon rolling in a snowbank with somebody else, "a pink avalanche of loveliness" named Mary. "There . . . with her sables and his great coat for blankets, David wooed a wintry Tsarina swathed in sables . . . The snow gave the deed the absolution of its own purity...
...accomplishment, he remarks happily, that gave him a great advantage over his Anglican rivals. He also learned how to put together a reasonable facsimile of a snowhouse, how to catch a seal (wriggle up to it, crawfish-style, pretending to be a seal yourself), and how to alleviate snow blindness by a few searing drops of kerosene in the eyes. He accustomed himself to the Eskimo menu, even to such delicacies as owl meat, scorpionfish liver, frozen raw fish, warm blood, seal guts braided with blubber. Like any true man of the Arctic, he became devoted to his Huskies...
Communist China); and Edgar (Red Star over China) Snow, who wrote in 1944: "The fact is, there has never been any Communism in China even in Communist areas." Others who plugged that line...
...Snow in July. These copies reached subscribers ahead of the last three boat-shipped issues. Response was tremendous, the heartening kind that kept us at the job during the hectic war years to follow. High on the new list of readers was Manuel Bianchi, a Chilean who had taken the first Air Express subscription ever sold. Now Ambassador to the Court of St. James's and one of London's senior diplomats, Bianchi recently looked back over the decade of cover-to-cover reading and called TIME'S Latin American Edition "a major instrument for understanding." Added...