Word: snow
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...turned out to cheer him on. In Toronto, 10,000 people greeted him. It was impossible not to admire his gutsiness and determination. He ran with a kind of hop and a skip with his prosthetic leg, on good days covering up to 30 miles. He ran through rain, snow and hailstones during the early weeks, then endured the sizzling afternoon sun of June and July. At one point, a welder did spot repairs on the artificial limb...
...small town America, yet it can be found. Writer Lael Wertenbaker, 71, has discovered just that in Nelson, N.H. (pop. 550). She likes Nelson for many reasons, including the fact that "in winter people know who's pregnant, and the snow-plow gets there first." U.S. Representative Wes Watkins of Ada, Okla. (pop. 17,000), chairman of the Rural Caucus, is not being merely windy when he says, "People in small towns are not numbers...
...Love Story," projected at the Science Center. You can engage in some projections of your own: maybe you too will one day enjoy a romp through the snow in front of Emerson Hall. At the very least, you will come close to being killed by a maniacal Boston driver a few times in your college career. It's a good thing Erich Segal teaches at Yale; he's just one more object for derision...
That occurrence, coupled with the dismantling of a snow scuplture depicting a South Africa memorial graveyard by maintenance personnel the same week, sparked racial controversy on a campus that many had thought of as serene and complacent...
...Wimbledons in memory. "Swimbledon," one London paper called it. A cartoonist depicted an umpire, safe in his chair, directing a lifeboat across a submerged Centre Court: "Miss Navratilova went down just about there!" Men's Finalist John McEnroe asked plaintively: "I wonder when it's going to snow...