Word: snow
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Some Poles went into hiding, moving every night from one place to another. A university professor who lives with a woman in Warsaw was hiking six miles back and forth every day to his own unoccupied house on the outskirts of town to keep the snow shoveled from his sidewalk. "If I don't do it, they'll think I'm hiding, and so they will start looking for me." Intellectuals have been particularly hard hit, arrested by the thousands. Some 40 Warsaw scientists narrowly escaped the roundup when one of them managed to alert a network of taxi drivers...
Ironically, the day martial law was imposed in Poland and fear, pain and grief descended upon the country, the sun rose with unusual clarity and brilliance, following two bleak weeks of gray skies and snow. In Gdansk, where Polish hopes for freedom had begun and had now terminated overnight, all that could be seen of the roundup of Solidarity's leadership were riot police encircling the union headquarters...
...road to Warsaw, I encountered Poland at its most beautiful-a perfect wintry landscape of rolling plains and snow-covered forests. I also encountered military vehicles-trucks, armored personnel carriers, light tanks and some light artillery-all heading south to Warsaw. The militiamen at checkpoints fingered newly issued machine pistols...
...studio at Chadds Ford, Pa., with a model of the White House before him, Jamie Wyeth invoked the gift of fancy that runs in his veins, and with his brush brought snow to canvas. Meteorological records were shattered. The giant flakes covered the fountain on the South Lawn and blotted out the driveways. Cars disappeared. Falling snow hushed the city and drew a purple night around it. Wyeth stilled the melancholy world with his lovely strokes and brought the stars out one by one on Christmas Eve. He lighted the window of the Reagans' bedroom with an artist...
...necessary annual nourishment for the presidency, just as important in some ways as the tax receipts. The stage is magnificently set. Word has it that Ronald Reagan will add to White House cheer by singing a carol or two, and Nancy has told her household that there will be snow. The flakes that Jamie Wyeth created in October have been waiting around...