Word: snow
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Rubinowitz skied 15 kilometers through the hard-crusted snow to place sixth in the women's cross country race. Middlebury copped the three top spots in the event and placed first in the overall team standings...
...fare as well as the women, losing to such skiers as Kare Jerje, who won the jumping, or Karsten Midvedt, the cross country champion. Herje and Midvedt found the snow agreeable to their Norwegian temperaments and led University of Vermont to the men's title...
purple heads through the crust of the pale blue snow...
...prolific writer of books and articles about nature, Kirk has already won awards for her studies of such subjects as deserts and whales. She deserves another for Snow. With her forest-ranger husband, she spent five winters on a part of Mount Rainier, where snow depths regularly reach to the third-story window. Each flake, she explains, is in fact clusters of crystals that become stuck together as they fall. She tells how the crystals themselves form, and how snow changes once it falls. It is useful information, especially for skiers, who should wax their boards differently for different types...
...only thing snow may not be is in finitely variable. One would like to be lieve that no two snowflakes are identical. But, notes Ruth Kirk, there are no physical rules that should prevent nature from duplicating itself, and there are more than half a million snowflakes in each cubic foot of snow. Scientists may not have found two flakes that are exactly alike. But then, they really haven't looked at that many...