Word: snowed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Climbs within the Selkirks vary, Francis said, from "simple snow" to high peaks, with Mt. Sanford, at 11,000 feet, the highest. Ranges within the Selkirks are the North Adamants, the Gothics, and the Blackflers, all at least a three day pack trip from civilization...
...cocaine and marijuana, most of it destined for the U.S. Some of the dope was foreign-made, apparently lifted from medical stocks sent by other countries as friendly help in 1949 when an earthquake hit Ecuador. But much of it came from the poppy fields which flourish under the snow-capped Andean volcanoes close to Quito. Impressed by White's raids, Minister of Government Camillo Ponce Enriquez last week promised to ask the next Congress for laws prohibiting poppy-growing. George White headed back toward his desk in Boston where, between traveling assignments, he is New England supervisor...
Independent physicists Norman J. Holter and W. R. Glasscock of Helena, Mont., reported Arnold, collected snow or rainwater and filtered it through cotton. The idea was to locate large deposits of uranium ore by means of the radioactive gases that they give off. Some of the gases turn into solid, radioactive elements, which are carried down by rain...
When the big day came, Comrade Dozza strutted and beamed. Some 400 children romped in the Sala Farnese-some in 18th century costumes, some dressed as little workers, with appropriate red masks. Outside, Margherita Gardens lay silent and deserted under a foot of snow, while the cardinal gloomed at home. With the long, austere days of Lent stretching ahead, it looked as if there would be no carnival that year...
...Temple, N.H., sturdily keeping up the folks-are-folks tradition, meeting-goers blocked three successive motions by the town's best-known son: Bible-quoting U.S. Senator Charles Tobey of TV fame. Only on his fourth motion, a proposal to spend $2,000 for snow removal in 1953, did the Senator win his fellow townsmen's ayes. He did not seem to mind being voted down; in his half-century of town meetings, he has grown used to such treatment...