Word: snow
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...owner who is pulling out says Hibbing has gone Communist, by which he means that real estate taxes are too high. As to the weather, Hibbing natives need only gauge the speed with which their nostrils freeze to calculate that the temperature is 19 degrees below zero. There is snow on the ground but nothing too serious. "Just walk where they've plowed," says Travel Agent Sue Klobuchar, "and it'll only be up to your ankles." It is good weather for ice fishing or Las Vegas; take your pick...
Activities in the day-long tribute to upstate New York weather included a noontime parade of snow plows and Polar Bear Club members who jumped into slush-filled tubs...
Fate would not let these cheery celebrants revel in the melting mush of snow, however, as the festival encountered more seasonably sunny weather. GEORGIA...
...walked along Sveavagen, Stockholm's well-lighted main thoroughfare, a dark- haired man wearing a blue ski jacket walked briskly up to the couple, pulled out a handgun and fired two shots at close range. A bullet struck the Prime Minister in the back, and he crumpled to the snow-covered pavement...
...numb and disbelieving Swedes gathered last week to stare at the small pool of blood in the snow where their leader had been gunned down, they wept not just in grief at the death of a shrewd and compassionate man, but at their unwelcome entry into the era of political terrorism. As one commentator eloquently observed, "The time of political innocence in Sweden has come...