Word: snowed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Miss Grable's ephiphany occurs on a snow-covered Maine hillside, where she makes her rebellion against the values of the organization man and of urban culture. She finds her true essence in returning to Nature, "to the woods," in the tradition of Thoreau and John Muir...
...Crunchy Snow. After this climactic event Astronomer Kuiper thinks the moon led an increasingly peaceful life. It picked up the rest of the small satellites, which made the fresh-looking pits on its surface. Cosmic rays and other high-speed particles bombarded its surface, riddling the material with microscopic holes. This beaten-up stuff is only an inch or so thick, says Kuiper, and it is not dust. He thinks it would feel underfoot "like crunchy snow...
...series on "a war nobody knows about." To gather the "whole wicked story" in Tibet, Barber (TIME, Jan. 13, 1958) and Fellow Mail Correspondent Ralph Izzard trekked 200 miles along the rugged Nepal-Tibet border with four Sherpa guides and 40 coolies, who carried their six tents, snow boots, whisky, double-lined sleeping bags, tinned food, drugs and 4,000 French cigarettes. For serious Tibet experts, Barber's panting prose about the guerrilla warfare between Chinese Communists and Tibetan warriors brought guffaws. But then Adventurer Barber once said: "I like to get far away, where nobody knows...
After sputtering and stalling for forty minutes, the Crimson finally caught fire in the third period, poured in two goals, and outplayed the visitors until the final five minutes. Dick Fischer added his second goal of the evening at 2:07 of the period, and sophomore Crocker Snow tallied at 13:24 to make the score 4 to 3. In this period, Crimson shooters bombarded Friar netminder Don Girard with 18 of their 32 shots...
...left alone. Except for the occasional call by Lowell Thomas or somebody looking for the Abominable Snowman, they got their wish. Down below, Hannibal and Hitler, Socrates and Sinatra flashed by; high in the Himalayas, ignorant and innocent of it all, the people went right on hunting snow leopards, dodging devils and waiting for the reincarnation of their uncles...