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Word: snowed (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...saved from committing his unwieldly, untrained and dwindling force to an assault on Boston by long-suffering gangs of soldiers, who dragged heavy cannon over the snow all the way from old Fort Ticonderoga on Lake Champlain to Boston. When the cannon were mounted on Dorchester Heights, the British sailed away to Halifax...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HEROES: A Man to Remember | 7/6/1953 | See Source »

...message that flashed from the foot of Everest on coronation-eve sounded heartbroken: "BAD SNOW CONDITIONS...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NEPAL: Conquest of Everest | 7/6/1953 | See Source »

...snow is on the grass again...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Rebels in Washington | 6/22/1953 | See Source »

Howling Massacre. The last scene began with a tableau of Napoleon's Grande Armée struggling in the snow. Then came a band of howling partisan-patriots to massacre the exhausted invaders...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Tolstoy, Digested | 6/8/1953 | See Source »

...valuable alter egos. On one occasion, when a general persisted in arguing an issue which Kyes considered closed, "Jolly Roger" reached out and flicked the four stars on the officer's shoulder straps with his fingertips. "Look," he said, "I didn't come down here to shovel snow. I came down here to pluck stars...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Man from Detroit | 6/1/1953 | See Source »

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