Word: snow
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...parking, he works with Robert Burns, manager of the department, to maintain the University's lots in areas ranging from snow clearing to the collection of fees...
...interested? Openly contemptuous, in fact? Then you are hardly a contrarian. To a good contrarian, Amhoist's expected profits in 1984 will still be meager enough to make it an out-of-season bargain, like snow tires in July. The fact that few other investors are attracted to it is all to the good. Contrarians are a stubborn breed who relentlessly resist the natural human tendency to run with the pack, and Amhoist is just the kind of stock they thrive on. Or hope...
...sins at the precise point of origin." She could not resist communicating the dictum that was pronounced upon Charles by Ninon de 1'Enclos, the celebrated courtesan: "His soul is made of mush, his body of wet paper and his heart is like a pumpkin fricasseed in snow...
Edwin Booth, who was born the year Kean died (1833), defined acting as the work of "a sculptor who carves in snow." Without sound film to record his art, an actor's performance ceased to exist on closing night. So Kingsley's Kean is a form of historical evocation, a tribute paid by one actor to another across the gulf of changing theatrical conventions. Other performers-Alfred Drake in a 1961 Broadway musical, Alan Badel in a 1971 London production of Jean-Paul Sartre's play Kean, Anthony Hopkins in a 1979 Masterpiece Theater-have played Kean...
...Helens. In a single burst St. Helens was transformed from a postcard-symmetrical cone 9,677 ft. high to an ugly flattop 1,300 ft. lower. Clouds of hot ash made up of pulverized rock were belched twelve miles into the sky. Giant mud slides, composed of melted snow mixed with ash, rumbled down the slopes and crashed through valleys, leaving millions of trees knocked down in rows, as though a giant had been playing pick-up sticks...