Word: snow
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Rescue workers could only guess at the actual extent of devastation on the remote, snow-covered slopes 600 miles east of Ankara, though past experience with tremors in the earthquake-prone region has taught them to expect the worst. Last year a quake hit the area, leaving 3,000 dead. In 1939 another seismic catastrophe took 30,000 lives. This time more than 120 towns and villages were affected, some of them isolated by 8 in. of snow on the narrow mountain roads. In the settlement of Alikelle, only two people survived out of 70 families. In the town...
Even people connected with the show seem abashed by its implicit sexism. In the first few episodes, Charlie (whose face is never shown and whose voice belongs to Actor John Forsythe) is seen disporting himself with spectacular sex objects and cracking leering jokes. As a pretty snow bunny bounces past him in a ski resort, he archly informs the Angels (over the speaker phone by which he communicates with them) that the scenery reminds him of "the majestic shapes of Switzerland." Later, after an accident on the slopes, he speaks of his excellent physical therapist as another cutie slithers past...
Senior fullback Sandy White scored both touchdowns in the Eliot-J.E./B. game, slipping across the snow-littered field and breaking tackle after tackle...
...even as the autumn leaves turn to winter snow, and the waters of the river grow icy, the women of Radcliffe's novice crew team continue climbing steps and navigating the Charles...
...Sanders." After Ford made his blunder about Eastern Europe, Mondale had a story for the occasion. "When I was in Poland, a cab driver explained to me how the system worked. 'We have a fifty-fifty deal with the Russians: we send them coal and they send us snow...