Word: snow
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Money, blankets, and other goods must reach the population as soon as possible," he said, adding, "In many towns, people have lost everything. The area is one of the poorest in Italy, and much of it is high in the mountains. Snow will be coming soon. Without help, I don't know how people will survive...
...distinct comedown from his earlier years, when his father (also Joseph), who died in 1917, supported his family in elegance by buying and designing textiles. From that domestic seclusion, the gray and long-beaked man would sally forth on small voyages of discovery: to Central Park in the snow, to Times Square (in the days before it became a rats' alley of pimps and porn), to the now disappearing bric-a-brac shops and bookstalls that used to line Fourth Avenue from the Bowery to Union Square. He spent these sojourns sorting through boxes of old embrowned photos, picking...
Because of the high price of airfare, Calvin Ho will not be going home to San Diego to tell funny Harvard stories. Not that he doesn't have any: "The first time it snowed, it was so cold and so white, I really didn't know what to do." He can't remember ever seeing snow before...
...women then came away with the garland by taking a 4-1 quadruple-overtime victory from Kirkland in the finals. Quincy took the field hockey title on the basis of an undefeated record in the regular season when the playoffs were cancelled due to scheduling conflicts and snow...
...Anguilla rostrata), much prized by Mediterranean diners, to squid, abalone, Boston scrod, the sadly underrated pike and San Francisco Dungeness crab. American oysters-notably Lynnhavens, Bluepoints, Chincoteagues and the Pacific Olympias-are as delicious and nutritious as any that Roman emperors had shipped from England packed in snow. (Louis XI ordered his advisers to eat this bivalve regularly as "brain food.") Though it is as expensive as beefsteak today, seafood can be stretched in astonishing ways, and Spear prescribes 29 fish soups and stews that elongate budgets while widening nostrils. For the more extravagant, two of her finny finest: shrimp...