Word: snow
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Wells now pump oil right out from underneath Main Street, and dozens more dot the surrounding buttes. Cranes lay down sections of pipe across snow and sagebrush that will carry gas from well to processing plants. Helicopters whir overhead. Hundreds of workers live in trailers and tents in fields, along the river banks, or wherever a friendly rancher will let them camp...
...plateaus where times just cease to improve and discouragement mounts. When a time suddenly drops, or a swimmer records a personal best, few people aside from parents or members of the same team congratulate them. To the uninitiated, a swimming meet holds all of the excitement of watching the snow fall. Consequently, only spectators who can appreciate fast splits, or the guts that go into a close 1650-yard race, show up to cheer...
Save for a few relics--the "rebel armored snow speeder" and the Destroy Death Star game--the Star Wars craze is over, replaced in part by a bewildering variety of careeroriented games...
...well, a time both for reflection and for looking ahead. Thanksgiving is a kind of pause between seasons ("a little this side of the snow and that side of the haze," wrote Poet Emily Dickinson). This year the holiday also marked a political pause. A defeated Administration was tidying up loose ends before vanishing into history; a new Government was organizing itself to take over. The nation seemed to be looking forward, not with exuberance, but with a more realistic mood that mingled relief and hope. There was relief that the strident echoes of a divisive and interminable campaign...
...mountain-top retreat, and for his last Thanksgiving as President. Rosalynn, Amy, Jeff and his wife Annette, and Annette's parents, Mr. and Mrs. G.C. Davis Jr., joined the President at Camp David. He had taken along his cross-country skis in case there was snow, but he was disappointed. He made a few phone calls, one to his mother, still recuperating in Georgia from a broken hip, and another to Connecticut Governor Ella Grasso, who was in a Hartford hospital undergoing chemotherapy for cancer of the liver...