Word: snow
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...stay home. All the banks opened accounts for donations pouring in for the victims. White has become the color of Jonesboro's grief--and community. The entire town and virtually every citizen wears white ribbons, as if sins as red as blood could be washed as white as snow...
Nearly 40 years ago, the British physicist and novelist C.P. Snow also lamented the polarization of science and the humanities. His essay, The Two Cultures and the Scientific Revolution, sparked one of the liveliest debates of the postwar era. Today, of course, there are at least 22 cultures, each celebrating its difference, none much interested in looking for common ground...
...Make a snowman in the Yard. And snow angels. Slide down the steps of Widener...
Fares go up five cents every eighth of a mile? No thanks. We'll just walk. In the snow. Uphill. Both ways...
...operates high over the waters. "Biggest tourist draw in southwest Montana," a chamber official crows. But even as visitors stream in, authorities must take elaborate steps to scare away waterfowl with loudspeakers, firecrackers and a boat. Such precautions weren't in place three years ago, when migrating Canadian snow geese had the misfortune to touch down on the waters for a drink. In the following days, officials counted 342 carcasses floating and washed ashore, their insides scoured with burns and sores...