Word: snow
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Fiction has always made use of monumental festive gorgings to patch over any gaps in the plot. Chaucer sneaks them in in his prologue to the Canterbury Tales writing of a house where it "seemed to snow food and drink and every kind of delicacy one can think of." And in Dickens' Christmas Carol, the crusty Scrooge's transformation begins when he supplies a complete spread, including goose, for his new friend Tiny...
...case, when, (if) any snow ever falls, and this year's model December 25th rolls around, the sins of past debauches will be long buried. And as people gather to celebate the birthday of a two thousand year gone heretical Jew, we can easily salve any conscience recoiling from yet another helping of roast beef and Yorkshire pudding. After all, at least we're avoiding that spirit of Christmas' past that would demand the consumption of "broke broune, longe flouteurs and payne puff" as but one tenth of our Christmas cheer...
...pupils bring in $5 million in annual revenues and $2 million in profits, which is plowed back into sports facilities for the rest of the.student body. Phys-ed classes at Penn State have first call on the school's indoor arenas, so the Nittany Lions occasionally must sweep snow off their field in order to practice. Says Paterno: "We never had a rug in our locker room. We're more spartan, and it's more of a challenge. We recruit people who belong at Penn State academically as well as athletically. No one is a special person...
...leaves until last week, and the Chinese tallow trees of the Texas prairies continued their spectacular display of long red leaves. In the San Fernando Valley, Calif., as citizens started using their fireplaces, the tangy aroma of burning eucalyptus logs hung in the air. Only a few flurries of snow have dusted the highest mountains of New England, though by last week the first real blast of winter had struck the Rocky Mountain and upper Plains states. Inhabitants of Rapid City, S. Dak., glided through the streets on skis after the storm dropped up to three feet of snow from...
Temperatures dropped below zero with the wind chill factor, and light snow flurries made the course treacherously slippery, making the race a miserable affair for the 241 individual competitors...