Word: snow
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...first snowfall could best be described as a "thin film" which blanketed the Yard last night, although several students reported seeing drifts as high as an inch in some areas. As the annual Yard snowfight got underway, many freshmen were guilty of "conduct unbecoming of a Harvard student," flinging snow at friends and enemies alike. The Ad Board. has not yet taken any disiplinary action...
...afternoon in Minnesota, near the headwaters of the Mississippi, the season arrived abruptly in a complex sky. Bright sun fired through slabs of blackish clouds -- tremendous lights and darks at work -- and then a dense snow pelted horizontally through the sunlit air. The American weather was transitional, bewildering. In Washington, leaves drifted from the trees in Lafayette Square. Across the street, there was a vacancy in the White House...
Falling sales could lead manufacturers to hold off on expansions. Rather than building factories and buying new equipment, businesses would look for bargains in used plants and machines. That would mean less work for contractors, carpenters and other members of construction crews. Richard Snow, director of the Associated General Contractors of Greater Milwaukee, conceded that area contractors were worried. "No hardhat is going to take a dive off an unfinished apartment building," he said, "but this crash could have serious effects down the road...
Someone said we should look for ice cream. But it was too cold even to snow and what we really wanted was an excuse to keep talking. We found it in a large building which sprawled onto the street. I remember a big red sign. And lots of chairs...
...should empathize with our problematic Hubert H. Humphrey Metrodome. I remember the arguments against building the dome years ago--mainly that spectating in the dome would be like sitting in an inflated hefty bag, that could pop any time. (They were right, and under the weight of a heavy snow cover, the roof has caved...