Word: snowed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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There were many abuses in the days before reform. Some Cambridge mayors who controlled municipal trucking used this power to pressure Councillors most of whom held trucking contracts with the city for snow removal or refuse collection. One mayor was known to call up a majority of the 15 Councillors before a Council session and warn them that unless they voted for a specific measure, they would lose their lucrative contracts. They generally agreed with his point of view...
...favor of PR. The people just don't got a fair shake nowadays. PR is too confusing." In 1940, at a time when he was under indictment on 64 counts of requesting and accepting bribes, Lyons appeared before the old Plan B Council to argue against buying new snow plows of which the city owned not even one. He observed that as "the Almighty sends the snow, . . . He will in time remove it." For in those days it was politically wise to remove snow with the hand-shovel power of unemployed friends. Lyons was later convicted on 42 counts...
...been worse. In the 22 months since December 1951, the moisture deficiency in the southern half of Missouri amounts to a million tons of water for every square mile of tillable land. Said Charlie Williford, U.S. weatherman in Springfield: "All we need is five inches of snow for a week, and a cloudburst in between...
Last December, Ernest Spiers was summoned before the town magistrate for keeping Eva out of school. He too was blazing mad. "Nobody wants his child to go to school more than I do," he said. "She can go to school in hail, rain or snow, but as I dress her. When the east wind blew, the Queen put Princess Anne in slacks. When I put my daughter in slacks, I am prosecuted...
...their spare time, the boys worked to help make ends meet, in line with the family philosophy: "God will provide if you will get out and scratch." Neil mowed lawns, shoveled snow, wrapped bundles in a laundry, worked in a can factory. By the time he finished high school, he had saved $1,000. Like his brothers before him, he applied for a Harvard Club scholarship ("because it was available"), took a competitive exam...