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Word: snow (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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Some people will remember Motown. Some people still sing it. Dionne Warwick will present her own watered-down version sometime in the distant future when the snow may be just a memory. It's a benefit for the Children's Hospital, so if you have a decent bone in your body, love kids and/or Motown, put April 8 on your calendar, if it's not already there...

Author: By Suzanne R. Spring, | Title: Beyond the Potato | 3/1/1979 | See Source »

...labor unrest that has been bedeviling Britain continued to possess the country last week. Highways remained glazed with snow because striking maintenance men refused to sand or plow them. Soaring Everests of garbage piled up in London streets as a walkout of refuse collectors entered a sixth week, and sporadic work stoppages there and in other cities by public employees fouled up the operations of hospitals and schools. Thus even though the public workers' walkout finally seemed headed toward a settlement, there was an air of desperation about Labor Prime Minister James Callaghan when he appeared in Parliament. Waving...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BRITAIN: Peace Treaty | 2/26/1979 | See Source »

...panel planned the trip last September and has not met since the recent strife began between China and Vietnam, Horner said, adding the group had planned a meeting in Washington last weekend but cancelled it due to the snow...

Author: By Brenda A. Russell, | Title: Horner to Visit China With National Panel | 2/26/1979 | See Source »

...went out to the driveway and started throwing the ball against the garage door. Sure, the snow was still lingering in the corners of the driveway, and sure, it was only a tennis ball, not the real thing with the stitches and the swishing sound it makes when you throw it. But those bounding balls, those one-hoppers, those occasional line drives, and those lazy flyballs off the roof were all unmistakeably baseball, and you were unmistakeably playing...

Author: By Bill Scheft, | Title: Diamond Time is Nigh | 2/21/1979 | See Source »

...unruly hair, or perhaps puff on his pipe, then suddenly erupt in a smile and announce a solution. Interrupted by parades of visitors to his Mercer Street house, he could resume his work almost as soon as they stepped out of his second-floor study. Recalls British Author C.P. Snow: "Meeting him in old age was rather like being confronted by the Second Isaiah?even though he retained traces of a rollicking, disrespectful common humanity and had given up wearing socks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cover: The Year of Dr. Einstein | 2/19/1979 | See Source »

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