Word: snowed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Abominable. In Raleigh, N.C., News and Observer Columnist Charles Craven discussed a city recreation department snow man contest, said there would be "two divisions-one for white children and one for colored," but "the snow men in both divisions will be white...
...intellectuals, burbled one Red newspaper, "braved wind and snow, traveled at night, lived in thatched huts built with their own hands. Sometimes it was so cold that the comrades could not sleep. The comrades would make a fire and sing around it." So happy were these "heroes of the high mountains" that they forgot their "individualism, bureaucratism, and subjectivism and acquired labor conception, mass conception, and collective conception. How the cadres love labor and have changed their mental outlook...
Sharing the lot of her snow-plagued subjects. Queen Elizabeth II plowed her station wagon into a drift near the royal homestead at Sandringham. had to mush 200 yds. down the road with Prince Charles to find a phone, call for help...
...luck to go with their new fame. Betsy fell the first day and was out of the running. Penny finished second in the downhill, but ran into trouble near meet's end when she turned too sharply into a slalom gate, tumbled in the sticky snow. But neither of the country girls was discouraged. "Oh. well." sighed Penny, "that's the way the ball bounces...
Nine Lives. The World War II saga of Jan Baalsrud, a Norwegian who spent more than a month in open snow escaping the Nazis, is related with reverence, intelligence and clear subtitles...