Word: snow
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Winter is not a season, it is an occupation," said City Maintenance Supervisor Mike Vazzano, who has spent the past 20 winters trying to keep the streets of Omaha clear of snow. He added meekly, "I really don't enjoy it that much." Last week Vazzano had real cause to complain: after 6 in. of snow, the temperature dropped to 24° below zero, a record for that day. That was only one of the 70 low-temperature records broken from Washington State to Illinois on Thursday, the first official day of winter, as an arctic front swept...
WATCHING Gorky Park is like taking a long walk though an endless forest on a cold wintry day as the snow and ice-leaden branches slap our faces. Based on the superb spy thriller by Martin Cruz Smith, this film hypnotizes us with its briskly paced plot, providing a whirl-wind tour of Moscow, snow-covered country estates, and Russian espionage organizations. The novel Gorky Park rivals John Le Carre's Smiley's People and Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy with a systematic, psychological unravelling of a bizarre mystery. Like Robert Ludlum's intricate tales, including Parsifal Mosaic, each minute...
...first part was the pre-game show, the annual tradition of 4100 Cornell fans covering their faces with newspapers as the Harvard hockey team was introduced and screaming wildly as their own team's starters, one by one, skated to center ice and kicked up a spray of snow in the visitors' direction. Big Red defenseman Mike Schafer added a special flourish, cracking his stick over his helmet and shaking the pieces furiously at the Crimson...
...half years, he has grown less enthralled with the individual games," and prefers doing more comprehensive leatures and issue pieces. Although he thinks Baseball is the quintessential American sport, covering it, be admits, is "disastrous for family life." "Basketball was fun but I hated to travel in the snow." Jackson's own sports fantasy would be to play professional tennis. "You could lose a ton of matches and still make a lot of money playing in warm weather," Jackson jokes...
...whiter arrives and snow blankets the mountains, the pandas will face more than tummy aches. Two have already died. In 1975-76 a similar flower-and-die disaster involving the umbrella bamboo, which is in a different growth cycle, led to the deaths by starvation of 138 animals in a panda habitat on the border of Sichuan and Gansu provinces...