Word: snow
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Crimson, playing in Antarctic cold, swirling winds and snow squalls, dominated play to such an extent in the first half that Harvard goalkeeper Matt Ginsburg did not have to make a single save until three minutes into the second half...
...hours before kickoff time, however, Orange Monday had become a white nightmare as an unusually early blizzard dumped 9 in. of snow on the city. With many of the city's snowplows still in storage, roads quickly became hazardous, and Interstate 70 was the scene of a spectacular (but not fatal) 56-car accident...
...pluses. Diehard Bronco fans, decked out in orange coats and scarves, watched Denver plow to a 17-14 victory. Schoolchildren had the next day off. Even the police got a lucky break: a woman suspected of robbing two banks was nabbed when her getaway car got stuck in the snow...
...writer, his daughter Susan, the author of three novels, recalls a visit to her father's grave in Massachusetts: "I look down at the snowy earth where my father lies. There are footprints under the maple tree that grows over his grave. People have been here, although the snow around the other graves is untrammeled. It was June when we buried him-the summer solstice. The day I return is Ash Wednesday. He lies there in the cold winter ground. I make a snowball with my hands, pack it firm, and lob it gently at the grave. There doesn...
...jittery from booze, racked with smoker's cough. He had expected, curiously enough, that the place would look like one of the Japanese prints by Hokusai or Utamaro that had been circulating among avant-garde painters in Paris. In a way it did: the ground was covered with snow, like the top of Fuji. But soon it (and he) melted, and in his letters no less than in his paintings one sees the colors that sign his Arlesian period, the yellow, ultramarine and mauve. In the late spring, "the landscape gets tones of gold of various tints, green-gold...