Word: snow
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...weekend before last Tuesday's primaries, Carter's own polling in New York showed his support melting like snow in the spring. Said a key Carter lieutenant: "We panicked Sunday because there was nothing that we could do to turn it around." It is a commentary on this primary that the very same day there was despair in Kennedy's camp. Several aides considered meeting with the Senator on Tuesday afternoon to tell him that the race was over, that he should withdraw gracefully that evening and not suffer any more humiliating losses...
...predicted in 1978 that the symmetrical peak, visible from Portland 40 miles to the southwest, would blow before the year 2000. Two weeks ago the mountain was shaken by a sharp earthquake, followed by a series of tremors. Then came another jolt. Suddenly last Thursday, the silence on the snow-covered slopes was shattered by an explosion that was heard 40 miles away. Said Barry Blair, a logger cutting timber twelve miles from the peak: "There were two little booms and then one great big one. It got real smoky and we discovered we were covered with...
...week's end no lava had appeared, although there was still that possibility. There was another danger: the heat of the volcano might melt the 16-ft. snow cover on the mountain, flooding streams and causing massive mud slides. As a precaution, water levels in three reservoirs on the nearby Lewis River were lowered. Meanwhile, scientists and residents kept watching anxiously to see just how angry Mount St. Helens would get. Said Kurt Austermann of the U.S. Forest Service: "We don't want to panic anybody, but nobody really knows whether it's going to start spitting...
guitar, And even in the instant when the snow grew stale, when the thaw came...
...snow above the grave...