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...stopped twice on the way once to look at the map when we realized we were headed for New Hampshire, once to urinate in a snowdrift. But now we were there...

Author: By Thomas J.meyer, | Title: The New Haven Nine | 11/16/1983 | See Source »

Dear Ann Landers: My wife has been a stationary snowdrift from the day we married ... She is an excellent mother, a fine housekeeper, a gracious hostess and active in the League of Women Voters. But she is more than cold, she's frozen. Starvation Diet

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Press: Homespun Zaps and Zingers | 1/19/1981 | See Source »

...Four freshmen disappear in a snowdrift outside Weld Hall, prompting Gov. Edward J. King to send in 1200 storm-troopers to close the University. "The people have spoken," King mumbles. "It's a difficult problem" President Bok admits...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Problems Here | 1/8/1979 | See Source »

...Term Bill Office in Holyoke Center announces that the families of the four unfortunate freshmen trapped in the 18-foot Weld snowdrift will still have to pay tuition for the spring semester. "I mean, they're in residence, aren't they?" an anonymous bill officer says. Deam Epps, after conferring with outgoing Divinity School Dean Krister Stendahl, admits that the storm may well have been divinely inspired...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Problems Here | 1/8/1979 | See Source »

...chair lift. But Rte. 106 was obscured under eight feet of snow. Where there had been cars on Christmas day there were now only the tops of antennas. They dug those out in the spring, too. The only route out of Little Cottonwood Canyon was over several miles of snowdrift...

Author: By Robert O. Boorstin, | Title: Snowbound in Utah | 12/8/1978 | See Source »

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