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Word: snow (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...poker ("I picture it drenched with blood, sticky as my arms, covered with fire," she says of his head). She lays awake at night convinced that the moonlight is actually streaming from the bottom of a UFO. She convinces herself that someone is watching her. "I sit in the snow with my back against a rock. I try to read. After a time the eyes find me there...

Author: By William E. Mckibben, | Title: Paradise Misplaced | 10/20/1980 | See Source »

However, Restic marks Nov. 15, 1975 as the system's finest day, when, en route to its one and only undisputed Ivy League championship, Harvard defeated Brown, 45-26 Quarterback Jim Kubacki completed 15 out of 18 passes for 289 yds., two yds. short of Jim Stoeckel' snow-broken single-game passing record. The team had everything--a great quarterback, a flashy wide receiver-Jim Curry-and a superb interior lineman, Danny Jiggets, now with the Chicago Bears. But for all the fine performances, it was the quarterback's day and Restic's selection of it as the Multiflex...

Author: By Jeffrey R. Toobin, | Title: What Does the Multiflex Mean? | 10/10/1980 | See Source »

Wolves used to slaver a lot. They hung around outside European villages to gobble up grandmothers. They trailed troikas across the frozen steppes, waiting for some tender Muscovite to be tossed their way. They howled through the Canadian wilderness on the heels of succulent trappers lost in the snow. All that has changed. Now wolves are seen as benign and useful citizens of the ecosystem. They protect nature's delicate balance by keeping down those troublesome caribou herds and even practice birth control. Wolves do still howl, of course, but, as Michael Fox reassuringly points out, this is often...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Wild Song | 10/6/1980 | See Source »

...abutter can do anything he wants to on a private way, but we don't have to plow the snow and stuff like that," Crane said. "But if that's a public way, we'll tell Harvard to cease and desist with the parking spaces and instead put in meters," he added...

Author: By William E. Mckibben, | Title: Crane Charges Harvard With Selling City Parking | 9/30/1980 | See Source »

...Expos now stand at the top of the heap in the N.L. East, in search of the first Canadian pennant. Picture it: a World Series in the snow, with Bowie Kuhn shivering in the front row. By succeeding in the American pastime, the Expos may force 100 million Americans to do what no international crisis, no war, no referendum has ever done: notice Canada...

Author: By Laurence S. Grafstein, | Title: The Pennant Race Goes North of the Border | 9/16/1980 | See Source »

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