Word: snow
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Department of Buildings and Grounds (B&G) installed a thermometer in the Mather House dining room in response to complaints by the Mather House Council about snow and frigid temperatures in the dining room, Christine Mattson, assistant to the master, said yesterday...
...crowd was into it. They did not stop screaming and yelling even when Fine put the game away with six foul shots in the last minute. The fans did enough footstomping and jumping around that the B&G snow removal team picked up even more overtime pulling plaster out of the IAB pool...
...last Wednesday's gala opening-night crowd seemed a bit too self-consciously arty, even for Cambridge, it was probably because of the unusually large number of reviewers and other theater-types invited to witness the first (snow-delayed) performance of the new company. But the nature of the audience itself will change; what is important is that people support this fledgling institution. Too many starving actors, you know...
Dukakis requisitioned every available snowmobile, four-wheel-drive vehicle and truck, and mobilized some 20,000 state workers, 4,000 National Guardsmen and 300 federal troops, some from Georgia, North Carolina and Texas, to help clear the snow. One of the first tasks was to open a runway at Logan International Airport so that the Army could fly in additional front-end loaders, dump trucks and emergency electrical generators...
...Service in Washington blamed the storm on a system of intense high pressure that has been meandering back and forth across Canada all winter. A similar system, known to forecasters as a "blocking high," caused California's two-year drought. This winter the Canadian high has been spraying snow and cold in seemingly haphazard, unpredictable directions, plunging temperatures to the 20s in Atlanta and setting snowfall records in places like Valdez, Alaska, which has had more than 63 in. so far. Meteorologists frankly admit that they understand very little about "blocking highs"-except that this one will surely bring...