Word: snow
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Once again Snow White has won Prince Charming. Perhaps Lady Diana will bring virginity back into vogue...
...plunging temperatures brought record snowfalls and drifts as high as 15 ft. In some places, power cables were downed, vehicles were stalled, and hundreds of motorists were stranded-including a wedding party marooned for eleven hours aboard a bus on Salisbury Plain. In Scotland, a taxi driver, trapped by snow, burned half a tank of gas just to keep his cab warm, while he waited for assistance. Five schoolboys out on an endurance test were rescued after two nights on storm-swept Dartmoor; a medium had told police where to look. Horse racing, cricket and soccer games were canceled...
...planned to see the place in action, bustling with down vests and hockey sticks and sparkling in a December snow shower. The fires would be dancing in gloomy libraries, where weathered sages gathered to discuss Tennyson and sip sherry. Upstairs the husky captains of the guys' and girls' swimming teams would be making love frantically, faintly worrying about how to explain their absence to the coach. In front of the headmaster's residence two little children, a boy and girl indistinguishable from each other in their cordurov overalls and knit hats, would romp with an aging golden retriever named Mayflower...
...hill-top school in Newport, R.I., was that no one would be there. Most everyone was, no doubt, off for Christmas break as we were. Disappointed, and embarassed over our own stupidity, we decided to take a look anyway, having little else to do for the afternoon. Instead of snow, a chilling drizzle had fallen since morning, and we quickly became irritated when bad directions sent us circling back into town toward the seafood restaurants and little olde craft shoppes...
...really had no excuse today, since the conditions were good," Alexander said, praising the pleasant temperatures and moderate winds that were a marked contrast to the gales and snow flurries at Amherst Monday...