Word: snow
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...first quarter, the Princeton-Dartmouth game was buried in snow. Yard-markers disappeared, officials blended with players, spectators shuddered over a dwindling supply of Scotch and began to beat a retreat from Palmer Stadium. But nothing seemed to bother a lanky Princeton halfback named Dan Sachs-neither wind nor snow nor wet ball, nor well-drilled Dartmouth line. He scored almost every way possible, passing for one touchdown, running back a kick for another, intercepting a pass for a third, schussing over from scrimmage for a fourth. Fans with antifreeze and the determination to last out the afternoon saw Princeton...
...center of a small group of attentive students stood a dignified man of medium height, his snow-white hair and ruddy face presenting a fearsome aspect as he nodded vigorously and gestured with his equally ruddy hands, which held a glass of strong punch...
...Snow, who will arrive late in February, will be the first of several visitors to the House next term. The visits will be financed by the Ford Foundation, which has granted each House $2400 for "educational purposes...
...author's wife, Pamela Hansford Johnson, also a well-known English writer and critic, may accompany Snow when he comes to the United States to give a series of lectures...
...bursts of creative activity (22 paintings last month) and laying on paint with meticulous palette-knife strokes, Riopelle is a moody painter. His Composition in White grew out of a trip to Austria. "The snowcapped Austrian mountains reminded me of Canada," he explains. "For weeks I was obsessed by snow and winter. I finally painted this to get the obsession out of my system. I always try to depict nature as I see it." ¶ Dynasty (opposite), by Kenzo Okada, one of Japan's leading moderns, who now lives in Manhattan. Okada, who came...