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Word: snow (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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Take a movie crew, add some traffic jams and roadblocks, swirl it around with a touch of the sixties and top it off with a mound of plastic snow right outside Massachusetts Hall and what do you have? A University and a movie company that don't seem...

Author: By Alexandra D. Korry, | Title: Harvard Says Bye Bye Film | 4/7/1979 | See Source »

Where is real estate climbing fastest in the U.S.? Try Aspen and neighboring Snowmass, Colo., the ski-and-sun resort area whose population of 17,000 swells to 35,000 when the snow is on the trails from Thanksgiving through mid-April. Six years ago, studio apartments in the Lichenhearth condominium complex sold for $30,000; today, these 675-sq.-ft. jewel boxes go for $175,000. Last year Jay Kuhne, a California real estate man, parted with $275,000 for his three-bedroom town house condo on the Aspen Club grounds; this year the unit is selling...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Schuss Boom in Colorado | 4/2/1979 | See Source »

...first in New Hampshire. And then there were those New Hampshire debacles that, given a little hindsight and a lot of state pride, seemed significant: Harry Truman in 1952, George Romney in 1968 and Ed Muskie in 1972. Ergo. New Hampshire obviously was a prize worth trudging through the snow for. In 1975, a regional politican named Jimmy decided to jump the gun and trudge twice-that year and in the primary and presidential election year of 1976. When voters eventually became aware that Jimmy's last name was Carter and made the man President, the pattern of stumping...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In New Hampshire: Here We Go Again | 3/26/1979 | See Source »

Thus the presidential parade passes by, all but meaningless except to the can didates, the political groupies, the press. On the windblown streets, with snow stacked at the curbs and down the center strip, people all seem to be blimp-shaped, wrapped in navy or rust or blue quilted suits. In motels, freezing guests set thermostats at 90°-but the mercury never touches 60° all night...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In New Hampshire: Here We Go Again | 3/26/1979 | See Source »

...Buzzard Club who had traveled from St. Louis to celebrate the event anxiously scanned the skies. They were well fortified against the cold and wore yellow cardboard beaks on their faces. Suddenly Park Ranger Bud Burger, peering through high-powered binoculars, spotted a distinctive shape soaring high over a snow-covered field. Moments later, a buzzard glided to a perch in a tall tree about a mile away. There was jubilation among the onlookers. If the buzzards had come to Hinckley, could spring be far behind...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Americana: Omen of Spring | 3/26/1979 | See Source »

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