Word: snow
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Inch or So Apart. Maybe the Browns weren't eager, after all-not after they woke up to discover that 3½ in. of snow had fallen in Green Bay on the morning of the game. The playing field was chocolate pudding-which was tasty as far as the Packers were concerned. "Packer weather," it is commonly called around the league, since Coach Lombardi's brand of football is so basic that little things like mud and snow don't bother him a bit. Cleveland's attack, as always, was built around the ultrasophisticated running...
Those who are still living in the brick dorms, however, seem to have lost their incentive to move off-campus. "I just can't see hiking through the snow to breakfast," one junior commented...
Main Artery. Even the sounds and sights of the land soon changed as U.S. deuce-and-a-halfs, Jeeps, bulldozers, helicopters and fighter aircraft raised whirlwinds of cinnamon-colored dust and sand as white as snow. In the north, some 45,000 marines clustered around Hué, Danang and Chu Lai. The new 1st Cav settled at An Khe, just off Route 19, main artery leading to the beleaguered Central Highlands. Qui Nhon, Route 19's eastern terminus, was held by South Korea's crack 15,000-man Capital Division...
...group read C. P. Snow's Two Cultures; Riesman's goal was to make the freshman look across the divide between science and the humanities before identifying themselves with either side. The seminar was a study of the sociology of intellectual life and the process of choice. "What factors lead to an intelligent choice of major at the age of 17?" Riesman asked his group. "I wanted to give them a sense of the richness of Harvard and how to make use of it," he says...
...fifths per year per person-double the rate in the rest of the country. Last week the 15-year-old oasis of cheap alcohol was drying up, the victim of a forthcoming New Year's tax increase. Long queues of customers stood through hail, sleet and snow to snap up West Berlin's stocks of liquor in a frenzied Christmas shopping rush. Tavernkeepers and restaurant owners bid up the rent of cellars to hoard extra cases...