Word: snowed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...JOHN H. SNOW JR. San Francisco
...General Chang Kuo-hua, the Red Chinese commander in Tibet, the coming of spring promised revenge for the indignities of winter. He was no longer tied down by the bitter weather and snow-clogged roads, forced to submit to the fierce hit-and-run raids of the rebellious Khamba tribesmen (TIME, March 16). Now he got word that 25,000 Khambas were concentrated only 40 miles north of the capital city of Lhasa. The tribesmen were supported by 8,000 Buddhist monks who, after the Reds looted their monasteries, traded prayer wheels for guns...
...hard," wrote the Harvard Crimson tolerantly, "to view riots in New Haven with the same alarm as those in Nyasaland." The pother at Yale had begun the week before, when a fine fall of late winter snow had coincided with a fettlesome rise of early spring sap. When, at 10 o'clock one night, the Harkness bells clanged out "Bulldog, Bulldog," the results were more or less predictable. Frosh surged out of dormitories like beer from a sprung keg, and began pitching snowballs. Brawlers leaked over locked gates and through classroom buildings into the streets, made a token charge...
...figured two hundred and fifty copies would be plenty, but other people heard the record, looked up the address I have on the back, and wanted to buy one. The stores in the Square were willing to sell them ("a public service" they called it) and it just snow-balled. Last year it was in the list of top ten L.P.'s in England for a while, and now it's getting started in Australia, I understand. I don't expect it to get much further since its appeal is limited to an English-speaking audience...
While recognizing the faults of the students in provoking the riot with snow, jeers, and Nazi flags, many New Haven citizens and university officers have joined students in condemning what has been called "storm-trooper tactics" on the part of the city police, one of whom triumphantly observed, "These guys started the fight...