Word: snow
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...travelled to Cornell last weekend only to be crested by five-foot snow drifts and whiteout skies--all part of the 'storm of the century...
Most local businesses closed early due to slow business and increasing snow...
This was the second time Harvard's season opener has been postponed because of the weather. Last weekend, a game against C.W. Post had to be called off because of snow...
...Bosnia and Herzegovina, leaving only Sarajevo and isolated pockets in the hands of Bosnia's mainly Muslim government. Among the most desperate are the besieged Muslim towns in eastern Bosnia, near the frontier with Serbia. It was their plight that prompted Clinton to order the airdrops over the snow-covered town of Cerska...
Even more perilous than the gunfire is what the Bosnians call bijela smrt, the creeping "white death" that comes when exhaustion leads to sleep in the snow and thence to death. Ramiz Bezdrob, a 66-year-old house painter, succumbed on the night of Feb. 27 trying to bring in food for his wife and five children. Four days later, other trekkers carried his emaciated body, his nostrils still plugged with ice, off the mountain on a primitive bier of branches. At least 50 people have frozen to death along the 26-mile route. Some of their bodies and those...