Word: snow
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...decision to place the building below ground--which itself was forced by community opposition to any a large buildings in the area--was not the cause of the problems. Instead, the survey reported, the water that somehow leaked into the building was surface moisture accumulated from rain and snow...
...failing that would have been unacceptable, and indeed unthinkable, in the larger and more democratic Labor Party. Begin ran his Cabinet in similar style during the week of discussion about the Reagan proposal. Asked to describe the Prime Minister's relationship to his Cabinet, a Begin supporter tersely replies: "Snow White and the seven dwarfs. They all owe their political lives to Begin. On the issues that count, the Cabinet reflects his views completely...
...published in hard cover by Harry N. Abrams, Inc.; $45), "scatters flowers before your feet and lays the pale colors and mild beauty of the Nordic summer before your eyes. Less apparent is the truth that this sunny effect is achieved against a background of darkness, cold, ice and snow...
...including more than 1,000 miles of previously uncharted icecap, by snowmobile in a record 66 days. After reaching the South Pole, the team ascended and descended the 9,750-ft. Scott Glacier. Said Burton: "Nobody who wasn't there, who has not felt the deadly lurch of snow giving way, hasn't seen the endless white or blue telltale shadows of a major crevasse field and been forced to continue going through more for hour after hour, can imagine the sweaty apprehension we experienced for those three days...
...streets, no blocks, no houses." Branding these blueprints "idiotic" and "deceitful," subcommittee members pointed out that there would also be no trucks, trains or airplanes for delivering the mail. Later, Retired Rear Admiral Gene La Rocque, a defense policy expert, said, "I can assure you that while neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night will stay the postal couriers from the swift completion of their appointed rounds, nuclear war will...