Word: snow
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...WHEN THE snow began to fall Saturday afternoon, Conrad Fagone, the city's commissioner of public works, began to round up his cadre of snowplow operators. It was an easier job than usual--he only had to get in touch with half his employees...
...icemen are still recovering from Saturday night's trip home from Orono. The team bus left the arena at 11 p.m. and cruised at a snow-encumbered but steady pace until grinding to a halt with a broken clutch at a toll booth near the New Hampshire border. The blizzard delayed the arrival of another bus and attempts to revive the vehicle were unsuccessful, so everyone sat there for four hours and watched the snow fall. Finally, at 6 a.m., a new bus showed up and the squad...
...this time, however, so much snow had fallen that the going was even tougher, and it was almost nine o'clock when the bus hit Cambridge. Turning into Soldiers Field was another matter, and the vehicle ended up wedged between the stone gate posts at the parking lot entrance. Assorted people left there, but "there was another breakdown after that," said Cleary. "I didn't leave Dillon until noon...
...swordswomen, who at the start of the weekend planned to fence three meets, found their matches pared down to only one. Soon after SMU cancelled the team meet. MIT called off its annual Christmas Invitational because of the snow. The individual competition will probably not be rescheduled because, as team captain Carolyn Powell pointed out, most of the teams scheduled to attend are now entering final exams...
...million stadium after a delightfully long-winded favorite son. So it was no small irony that the roof of the Hubert H. Humphrey Metrodome collapsed for lack of hot air. Two months ago, the stadium's ten-acre nylon cover was inflated with electric fans. Then a heavy snow came unexpectedly early: a hot-air melting system was not yet in full operation. The fabric big top sagged under the weight of the slush, then tore, and finally drooped to within 60 ft. of the field. It took four days to repair...