Word: snow
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...political climate in Utah (pop. 860,000) rarely erupts in thunderstorms visible beyond the border. But for three years, chain lightning has crackled between snow-capped Senior Senator Arthur V. Watkins and volcanic ex-Governor J. (for Joseph) Bracken Lee. Watkins cannot forgive Lee a long record of sheer perversity-outspoken criticism of President Eisenhower, opposition to federal income tax, foreign aid, federal aid to education and Arthur V. Watkins. Lee cannot forgive Watkins for having openly supported a Republican candidate in 1956 who beat Lee out in his bid for an unprecedented third term. After his defeat Bracken...
...wastes of Libya, Krim gestured at the comfortable interior of the plane, pointed deprecatingly to his grey European suit and shrugged: "I don't like this luxury. What I really like is being out in the mountains. You know, I can march all night, sleep in rain or snow, then fight and march and fight again. That's really my life. It's purifying...
More than 2,000 years ago. in a campaign against King Artaxerxes II, a force of Greek troops was trapped deep in the Persian Empire. Surrounded by hostile armies, the Greeks had no hope of reinforcement and no allies, were separated from home by broad rivers, towering mountain ranges, snow-covered plateaus...
...Greeks had yet faced, who fought them hand to hand and, when they killed a Greek, cut off his head and "sang and danced," waving it in front of the survivors. Armenia was an agony, a land filled with blizzards. Men "who had been blinded by the snow or lost their toes by frostbite" had to be left behind...
...devoted to contests, small dinners, or even building renovations, and to inviting distinguished guests to live in the Houses for a time--some who came here were author John P. Marquand '15, poet Robert Frost '01, writer Edmund Wilson, poet Marianne Moore and British civil servant Sir C. P. Snow...