Word: snow
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...last day in Plains, Carter rose at 6:30 a.m. and gazed upon the dusting of snow and ice on the pine trees-the first in his octogenarian Uncle Alton's memory. While Rosalynn scrambled eggs and cheese, Jimmy fried the breakfast ham. Shortly before noon, he shut off the water and electricity, turned down the thermostat, and left the house in the care of a maid and the Secret Service. At the train depot, the Carters waved goodbye to the 18-car Peanut Special...
...folks in the $160 coach seats and the $260 sleepers, however, were not about to wait until they reached Washington to begin celebrating. As the Peanut Special rolled toward Savannah past naked cotton-and cornfields and snow-crowned pine and pecan groves, they partied with a vengeance-almost as if they were reversing General William Tecumseh Sherman's earlier trek across the South. Said Sam Simpson, a grocer from Barnesville, Ga., bedecked with a peanut lei and two peanut bracelets: "My granddaddy told me that hell would freeze over before we'd have a Southerner as President. Well...
...could not swim, but he plunged in anyway, stood shoulder deep in the water, and can now tell his friends about the time he splashed around in the pool with the President. With four other couples, all old friends, the Fords spent their final weekend at snow-covered Camp David, where a log fire crackled in the huge stone fireplace and Navy stewards scurried around at their beck and call...
...rain turned white? Startled millionaires wintering in their baronial mansions in West Palm Beach, Fla., peered closer last week at the miracle that was falling from the skies and discovered-could it be?-yes, the substance was snow, the first ever reported there. Since mid-November, pedestrians in Dallas, unaccustomed to such hazards, have been slipping on sleet-slicked sidewalks. Meanwhile, a series of blizzards has smothered Buffalo this winter with an astonishing 126.6 in. of snow...
...regions of the U.S. The Labor Department estimated that some 500,000 workers had been laid off in plants shut down by fuel shortages. Next summer's crops could be damaged by the effects of the deep-reaching cold on the soil, and the lack of moisture-bearing snow in the West...