Word: snow
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Poor Chicagoans. With former Mayor Bilandic they worried about snow, with Byrne they worry about...
Cate was already out in snow-choked Des Moines with the G.O.P. candidates who had come to Iowa when TIME'S editors in New York scheduled the cover story on the grain embargo. Filling in for Cate in Chicago, Correspondent Madeleine Nash marshaled stringers (part-time correspondents) to assess reaction to the embargo in the farm states and tapped her own agriculture sources. Patricia Delaney reported on the hectic commodities trading at the Chicago Board of Trade, while David Jackson interviewed experts on the gasohol program. Barry Hillenbrand, who had been following Ted Kennedy's efforts to explain...
Just before this winter's storms arrived, along with an anticipated 18 ft. of snow, the Yuba-Feather Health Center held its first open house. Furniture in the waiting room was pushed back for dancing. Hill people arrived from lumbering outposts, such as Shenanigan Flats, Timbuctoo, Challenge and Strawberry Valley. Carrying plastic wine glasses, they poked their heads into the X-ray area, the pharmacy and the psychologist's quarters. They wandered through the cook's shack, now transformed into a dentist's office. And they studied twinkling, gyrating machines in the laboratory, formerly a fire...
...snow-blown slopes of the Afghan mountains, 75,000 Soviet troops turned their invasion into a full-scale occupation. Moscow's divisions spread into the hinterlands to stiffen the Afghan army's wavering resistance against the Muslim insurgency. A huge Soviet military airlift, which set the stage for the Christmas overthrow and execution of President Hafizullah Amin, showed no sign of slowing. Each day, eight to ten gigantic Antonov transport planes landed at Kabul and Bagram airports. Besides an arsenal of T-62 tanks and armored personnel carriers, the planes disgorged electric generators, bulldozers and building materials-telltale...
...strokers; Mike Douglas runs him a close second in the ingratiation stakes; and Dick Cavett creates the illusion that he is your guest, enjoying a slightly subversive private chat. Carson, on the other hand, operates on a level of high, freewheeling, centrifugal banter that is well above the snow line. Which is not to say that he is hostile. Carson treats you with deference and genuine curiosity. But the air is chill; you are definitely on probation...