Word: snow
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Columbus, two winters ago, Furniture Executive Ernest Stern, 57, had helped his employees lift a cabinet. Then he pushed a stalled car in front of his house and shoveled snow from his driveway. These exertions made his back feel somewhat stiff, but he decided to keep a tennis date anyway. That was a mistake. After the first serve, Stern's back gave way, and he had to be helped off the court...
...case of a middle-aged lady who has been married for about 20 years and whose children are grown and have left home. She has an emotional need for love and affection, but her husband is always busy with his work. One day this lady falls in the snow and complains of lower back pain. Suddenly her husband is attentive to her. Subconsciously she perceives that she is rewarded for her painful illness. The original injury heals, but she still complains about the pain...
...Snow: 1905-1980 "I'm a fairly clever chap and can put my hand to things," C.P. Snow liked to say. The self-appraisal was a classic of good British understatement. Snow put his hand to a stunning variety of things. He was a novelist, essayist, biographer, physicist, playwright, civil servant, company director, government official. Member of Parliament, teacher and public lecturer. His death last week at age 74 brought to an end not one life but many...
...Snow's distinguished careers began in modest circumstances; he championed ambition and meritocracy because he was the successful product of both. He was born in the industrial city of Leicester, the son of a clerk in a shoe factory. His family, as he often remarked later, was "shabby genteel, not working class but no money to spare." The boy gave signs early on that lower-middle-class neighborhoods would not hold him long. He showed an aptitude for science, a field he took up because his grammar school offered no arts courses. He won a scholarship to Leicester University...
...three years since that victory party, the Rebel forces have somehow wound up hiding from a revitalized Empire on the planet Hoth, which is nothing more than an oversized ice cube. Darth Vader and the Empire quickly discover the Rebellion's snow hideout and descend upon the planet with a force of huge, camel-like tanks...