Word: snow
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...addition to the unfolding spectacle of human savagery, she sees some spectacular sights. She happens to be flying over in a small bubble of a spaceship when the planet suddenly tips over from its upright axis. Her description of this cataclysm, all grinding continents and sudden snow, is the most vivid part of her report...
...broke up so bad we couldn't get back to the boats," Don Van Dyke recalls. They stay put, afraid that the thickening weather will keep them from being seen. The big red copter whirls down through the sleet, sending up a cloud of snow as it hovers, barely touching the ice, 30 ft. from the fishing shanty. Chuck and Don and three other fishermen scramble aboard...
...state was virtually paralyzed by a blizzard. Grasso promptly set up a command post in the state armory and directed around-the-clock emergency operations. When she flew by helicopter to a remote part of the state, there below her, tramped out in large letters in the snow, was a message: ELLA HELP. As the economy picked up in the spring, so did Grasso's popularity. On Election Day 1978, she won more than 75% of the state's 169 towns. Her legacy, however, is not just accessible government and a balanced budget. As her husband once said...
...been for the blanket of powder snow and the blue skies, the problems under discussion this year might have seemed weighty enough to send Mann's hero Hans Castorp back to the sanitarium for another seven years. Europe's most influential men were deeply upset over the turmoil in international financial markets. In a session chaired by former British Prime Minister Edward Heath, Karl Otto Pohl, president of the West German Bundesbank, expressed concern over the disparate rates of inflation throughout Europe and the West, calling for "effective measures for coordinating economic policy." Guido Carli, former governor...
When things get truly rigorous, a certain improvisational talent comes into play. At Show Low, a tiny town (pop. 3,800) in eastern Arizona, some members of the company had to relieve themselves on the snow. Even when plumbing is provided, timing is vital. Portable toilets were installed in Lubbock, Texas, for company convenience, but they were located right inside the theater doors so that, as one TOT stalwart reports, "if you had to go during the show, you had to go during a loud part...