Word: snowdrops
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...blue flower of the snowdrop looked out First, little by little Its green small leg it put out, Then stretched with all its Small might and asked quietly: "I see that the weather is clear and warm; Tell me-it's true that Spring is here?" THIS old Russian poem, remembered in rough translation through the years since his childhood in Moscow, inspired Cover Artist Boris Chaliapin to create the background for this week's cover portrait of Soviet Poet Evgeny Evtushenko. And it was, in another sense, a search for the answer to the question "Is spring...
...casts,' largely juvenile. Cinderella, the favorite, has been given 22 times in as many years. Runners-up are Sleeping Beauty, Rumpelstiltskin, Jack and the Beanstalk, Beauty and the Beast and what Nila persists in calling-in near-blasphemous defiance of Walt Disney and the brothers Grimm-Snowdrop and the Seven Dwarfs...
...biggest oversnow airborne maneuver in Army history, the climax of "Exercise Snowdrop," latest in the Army's continuing research into the best way of fighting an Arctic war (others: Task Forces Frigid, Frost, Williwaw in Alaska, Wisconsin and the Aleutians). The jump was made by 500 men of the 505th Airborne Battalion Combat Team, a unit of the Army's famed 82nd Airborne Division...
...redecorated office General Dwight D. Eisenhower quietly did his paper work. On the London streets newly spruced U.S. military police, in white leggings, white webbing belts, white gloves, white helmets, cringed under the derisive G.I. appellation - "snowdrop...
...this glistening grandeur, the stiff-necks got an extra al lowance, but murmured through stern lips that the upkeep, especially of gloves, was terrific. The Provost Marshal called the new equipment an aid to dignity and blackout identification. The G.I.s called its rednecked wearers a distasteful new name: "snowdrop." Easy-going General Ike, who has a spit-and-polish West Pointer inside, decided the whole European Theater of Operations personnel needed sprucing up. He decreed snappier and more frequent saluting, and an end to the unsoldierly practice of looking away on crowded city streets, when a salute...