Word: snow
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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SATURDAY night. Midnight. Packs of jeering, snow-laden combatants rushed past, pouncing on their targets, smothering any attempted defense, and thoroughly dousing their victims. My clothes were caked in snow, and my head covered in frost after emerging victorious from the flurry of winter warfare...
What began as an especially malicious round of the "Thayer sucks, Holworthy bites" war of verbs had escalated into a classwide snowball fight of avalanche proportions. Yet the sight of hundreds of impassioned first-year Harvardians clashing and writhing about the snow-packed ground with reckless abandon, was not just an example of the old run-of-the-mill Veritas spirit. No, this was a rare attack of the Wild Weather Syndrome--the third to hit the Yard this year...
...find any of Walt Disney's new spice in Natty Gann, but the movie isn't Snow White either. It is a fun and well-done movie, well worth seeing for all its simplicity...
...fuselage remained intact. The stricken craft left trees burning and strewn like pickup sticks in its wake. The DC-8's debris and the soldiers' personal effects were scattered in all directions. A boot remained upright. A knife hung from a web belt. A stuffed bear lay in the snow. Two tiny dresses meant for a trooper's daughter somehow escaped the flames...
...prepared to lift off once again, a light snow was falling under overcast skies, but visibility was a good twelve miles. Pilot Griffin was first told by the tower to take off to the west, which would have put the plane quickly over the town of Gander and its 12,000 residents. Fortunately for the town, the wind shifted and the captain was directed to use a runway toward the south...