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Word: snowbanks (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Robinson, 12, was discovered Dec. 16 beside a freeway, four days after she was reported missing from her home in Royal Oak. Kristine Mihelich, a brown-haired, blue-eyed ten-year-old from nearby Berkley, vanished on Jan. 2. Her body turned up 18 days later in a roadside snowbank. These victims may all have been sexually molested-the Stebbins boy was. Each body was found fully clothed; two were dead from having been smothered. The exception was Jill Robinson, killed by a shotgun blast that the police think accidentally occurred when the killer panicked. All the children, including Timothy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: They All Trusted Their Killer | 4/4/1977 | See Source »

Sobil and his roommate were tyring to reach the next room through the fire escape when Sobil stepped through a two foot gap in the gridding, bounced off the other two fire escapes and landed in a snowbank, eyewitnesses said...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fourth Floor Fall Leaves Student 'Fair' | 3/8/1977 | See Source »

...winters ago, I made a desparate sliding turn at high speed to avoid a beginner who had fallen in my path. I never got control and could feel something awful happening to my knee as I plunged into a snowbank. My bindings did not release and I found myself wrapped up like a pretzel and in considerable pain. A ski patrolman came by and congratulated me for my graceful swoon. Then he left. Approximately half an hour later I managed to get up and it took me two hours to complete a 30 minute run. My knee

Author: By Andrew Multer, | Title: The Downhill Skiing Mentality | 12/13/1976 | See Source »

...Which presidential candidate is clumsiest? No, it is not necessarily Gerald Ford. Ronald Reagan slipped off a snowbank in New Hampshire, but no photographer snapped his fall. Occasionally, Reagan has bumped his head with hardly anyone noticing; more frequently (and noticeably), he has also been known to put his foot in his mouth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICAL NOTES: Unconventional Wisdom | 2/2/1976 | See Source »

...Kennebunk, quaffing Colt .45, the completely unique experience. With Mike, it was. Mike took his drinking seriously, but had a morbid funny bone when it came to close calls. One winter night, after upsetting a 16 oz. Colt in my lap by skidding around a corner and ramming a snowbank, Mike looked over and grinned his best boyishly sinister grin. "It's a good thing for snow," he said. I asked why. He just pointed to the snowbank. Behind it were three ominous looking pine trees...

Author: By Peter A. Landry, | Title: Petering Out | 1/25/1974 | See Source »

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