Word: snow
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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They won't be parading in Southie today; Kevin White says there is too much snow. Too much, he says, for the city's legions of green-blooded patriots to pay their annual homage to the Old Country, the snakeless home of poets, revolutionaries, and--most important--Guinness stout...
...stood precisely at a point where all traffic meets, and stood there enjoying the quiet. But that was my only opportunity to stand there. Suddenly, as if to remind me of what was in store, a car came sailing on the snow and the driver asked that I move to the side...
...looked at him, and asked defiantly, "Do you have credentials to drive?" He looked at me and said he had, and that he was enforcing the emergency. Thereupon I told him he could go around me, but I was going to hold on to what the massive snow storm...
...made my biggest snowball of the day in the famed Harvard Yard, and approached the black metal statue of John Harvard. Snow adoration, I thought, would be an appropriate tribute to a man who started all that is Harvard...
...about to throw the snowball, I found a snow-lady carved beautifully in every detail in the arms of John Harvard, with her bottom resting partly on Harvard's lap and partly on the open book that appears on the statue...