Word: snow
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...nothing has been permitted to interfere with the expedition's rigid program of scientific observations. Teams of scientists leapfrog each other, spurting ahead of the column to set up their instruments, and spurting to catch up when they are left behind. Every ten miles they take cores of snow and ice, sometimes 200 ft. deep. Such cores are like petrified weather: they have layers and particles in them that tell the history of Antarctic centuries...
With his train of Weasels and Sno-Cats (special snow vehicles with spiked tracks), Fuchs had heavy going. The weather was warm for Antarctica, and the snow-bridges over the crevasses were weaker than when he pioneered the route to South Ice. Nine times his vehicles broke through the roofs of vast caves in the ice and had to be hauled out. Once a Sno-Cat was brought to the surface by fixing in the ice beneath it long sections of aluminum bridging to form an incline up which it could be drawn. Other troubles were heavy snowfalls and many...
...timetable, the Fuchs expedition crawled up the domed icecap from South Ice. It painfully threaded through a line of nunataks (mountain peaks almost submerged in ice), and reached ice with fewer crevasses on the high plateau behind. Here were great fields of sastrugi-wind-formed ridges of hard-packed snow sometimes 4 ft. high. The Sno-Cats crossed them all right, but with dangerous pitching and crashing. Progress slowed to a crawl; the weather grew worse; but the scientists kept to their schedule as if they were making their observations in the south of England in June...
WORST FLORIDA WINTER in this century has taken $55 million bite out of state's citrus, vegetable and flower production. Heavy snow wiped out half of crop in Dade County (Miami), but growers hope to recoup by pushing up prices...
Footprints in the Snow. The old woman's story runs thus: she was once a simple, pious country girl who was groomed for the role of prophetess at Delphi's prosperous temple. There she was clothed in a bridal robe, learned to get along with the temple snakes, eat the sacred laurel and become the ecstatic "bride" of the god who emanated from the cleft of a rock in the depth of the earth. As a Pythia she was alone, a social outcast, feared and avoided by the plain people of Delphi. She was totally filled with...