Word: snow
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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When there's two feet of snow on the ground and three feet of slush in the streets, people in Cambridge tend to find strange escapes. Some even take to snow-diving, a cold but existential sport...
After the speeches and tours are over, and the beer and pretzels vanished, some of you may leave the building for good. Some will stay, join the comp, and spend time around the CRIMSON. After all, you can always try jumping into snow banks in your spare time...
Undergraduates with a sleeping passion for becoming part of the least selective but most widely read branch of the CRIMSON's hierarchy -- THE CRIMSON SPORTS BOARD--should crawl through the snow tonight or Wednesday night and come to introductory meetings for the CRIMSON Spring Competition...
...tranquillity turns into hysteria. Each time Portnoy's mother Sophie reappears, another bit of horror is added. Portnoy justifies it all by saying she wears "the old self-conscious on her sleeve!" In any case, she soon seemed to me more like the witch out of Disney's Snow White than anyone else (which only serves to show where my first conscious remembrance of fear lies.) Along the way, there is lots of exaggeration, a veritable thesaurus of recrimination...
...Michael Rogers, a student headed back to Georgia's Oglethorpe College, the ordeal began shortly after 10 a.m. Sunday, when he telephoned Eastern Airlines to check on its 11:25 a.m. flight to Atlanta. Assured that the flight would depart with "a slight delay despite the snow," Michael drove to the airport and checked into the Eastern terminal at 11 a.m.-only to discover that the flight had been canceled. He was still there 56 hours later. Thousands of other travelers were similarly misled by the airlines, which, out of either optimism or greed, led them to believe that...