Word: snow
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Russians as an example and announce that the animals will get double rations, the men none, for three days. At story's end, the prisoners are nudging one of their number forward past the two snow-shrouded bodies of their comrades to ask the animals' guard if he will trade the day's meat ration for the corpses...
...speech, the Army's Brucker reasserted the Army's right (bitterly disputed by the Air Force) to the long-range ballistics missile, goaded the Air Force by claiming that the Army's weapons are superior because they "are not limited in their effectiveness by fog, rain, snow or any other adverse condition." ¶ In Akron, Assistant Navy Secretary James H. Smith Jr., on the eve of an abrupt retirement to private life,*refrained from specific criticism of the other services, nonetheless ruffled Air Force feathers by assigning to the Navy a far more important strategic-bombing role...
...years creep slowly by, Lorena The snow is on the grass again...
...Tokyo (where they lunched with onetime Japanese Ambassador to the U.S. Eikichi Araki, a Princeton graduate school student in 1923), the visitors set out to see Japan. Amidst a profusion of potent Japanese beer, sake, bourbon, Scotch and all manner of native dishes, they saw Fujiyama mantled in unseasonable snow, famed shrines and spas, one geisha dance so laden with obscure symbolism that Host Osawa told his mystified buddies: "If you can understand either it or the program notes, you're a better Japanese than I am!" At the Nagoya railroad station, the Princetonians were greeted by employees...
Picked up by radio in Katmandu, the brief message was rushed to Nepal's new King, Mahendra. While the invading Japanese still struggled toward his Himalayan capital down the dangerous, snow-covered slopes of their triumph last week, Mahendra ordered his subjects to prepare a proper reception. Not since the collapse of their "Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere" had any Japanese been greeted as conquerors. But now three of them had become the first to top Manaslu, world's ninth tallest mountain (26,658 ft.) and one of the toughest to climb...