Word: snow
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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According to thousands of Pennsylvanians, spring arrives March 16, exactly six weeks after a groundhog in Chester Valley Knoll sees his own shadow and crawls back into his hole. According to astronomers, who gaze at the vernal equinox and not the infernal snow, spring will burst forth at 8:53 p.m. March 20. But to millions of U.S. gardeners, spring officially begins the minute they stroll through the local flower show and receive their newest seed catalogue-and many of them have...
...Milwaukee, nearly 100,000 people recently walked out of snow and subfreezing temperatures straight into a lush garden where a stone Saint Francis of Assisi stood by a gurgling waterfall and fields of flowering forsythia and geraniums. In Kansas City, Mo., the theme was "A Circus of Flowers," with a candy-striped circus tent summoning up a gay, summer air. For the opening of Cleveland's 23rd show, neither blizzards nor bone-chilling winds sweeping off of ice-covered Lake Erie could deter 18,000 hardy hobbyists. And in Detroit, while huge blocks of ice floated down the river...
...Snow lay 25 inches deep. The houses were dark, the beerhalls deserted. Everything about the little (pop. 3,700) copper-mining community of Houghton, on Michigan's Upper Peninsula, suggested rural serenity...
Author Iglauer, the wife of The New Yorker Writer Philip Hamburger, flew to Northern Canada, attended the conferences as an observer, learned how to walk in deep snow (bend the knees to exert a forward rather than downward thrust) and got an Eskimo name: Oneekatualeeotae, "The woman who tells the story." She tells it deliberately and unemotionally, but she provides plenty for the reader to feel emotional about...
Radcliffe's snow bunnies won their second meet of the season this weekend at Suicide Six and Mt. Ascutney in the Women's Intercollegiate Ski Conference...