Word: snow
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...time as chairman of his college's board of trustees and the rest as chief executive of Minneapolis' Toro Co., which makes lawnmowers, snowthrowers - and a ton of money. A blizzard winter helped Toro's profits double last year. If a witch doctor could make the snow fall, he would be on McLaughlin's payroll...
...ship. There is enough romance in the hard-nosed seaman that he sought out John Leavitt's widow, Virginia, and invited her to break the obligatory bottle of champagne over the ship's prow at the christening. She did, splashing it all over her face, dampening her snow white hair and proper navy blue dress. The crowd cheered. The Thomaston High School band thumped out a march. Members of the Newmarket militia fired a one-gun salute...
...local junction, Alliance (pop. 10,000), a boom town. The mean Midwest weather that Judge Moran encounters has not changed since Lawyer Abraham Lincoln rode Illinois' Eight Circuit. Carl Sandburg described it: "Mean was the journey in the mud of spring thaws, in the blowing sleet or snow and icy winds of winter...
Little pink or purple pills, we ate them after mid-year exams with all the snow collecting dirt around the Square, between the jaws of pressure and frightening independence, pent-up wildness careening off the inner walls of confused, lateadolescent minds...
...independent oil exploration and production companies. Lewis began as a consultant eleven years ago, and today he holds an interest in 11,000 wells in 21 states. Sitting amid the chrome and crushed velvet of Denver's Petroleum Club, Lewis gestures toward the Rocky Mountains still glazed with snow and exults: "This is today's big oil frontier. It is the most exciting thing in America's energy equation since the North Slope of Alaska...