Word: snowed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...month. Now the Administration needed still more time to examine the economy before moving toward an antirecession tax cut or an all-out public-works program. On March 21, the day Washington had so anxiously awaited, a top Administration economist gazed out a window at the heavy snow. "Give me April," he muttered. "I'd like to borrow April...
...Strategic Air Command's B-47 No. 876 hurtled into the air from the runway at Hunter Air Force Base at Savannah one afternoon last week. Along with most of SAC's 308th Bomb Wing, No. 876 was headed off on a highly classified flight-Operation Snow Flurry-to one of the four SAC fields in North Africa...
When it was discovered about twelve years ago that the slopes around Aspen, Colo, could be mined for skiers' dollars as profitably as they had been worked for silver 75 years before, a permanent snow blindness began to cloud the vision of Aspen (pop. 1,200). This year, with the dollar-mine booming, the malady gripped the school system. School officials have long since been faced with the looming, 11,300-ft.high Mount Aspen tantalizingly visible from classroom windows. When book learning shuts down at noon every Wednesday, almost the entire school population gathers at the ski school...
...snow turned into slush, a hint of spring tinged the air. and romance was off again, on again. Collared in mink and hatted in velvet, Cinemactress Paulette Goddard, 42, beaming on an old beau she had met in the late '30s in Branford, Conn., took as her fourth husband German-born Novelist Erich Maria (All Quiet on the Western Front) Remarque, 59. In Las Vegas, onetime Queen-for-a-day Leona Gage, 18. who got bounced from the Miss U.S.A. throne last year for being a married woman, did her own bouncing: she divorced Air Force Sergeant Gene Ennis...
...allot only $18.6 million to new buildings. Meanwhile, the California Institute of Technology started a $16.1 million fund-raising drive to improve salaries, erect new buildings. ¶Urging a Harvard University audience to bridge "the gulf between scientific and nonscientific cultures," England's Sir Charles P. Snow, physicist and novelist, mapped the abyss by noting: "I've often asked distinguished English writers and the like a rather simple question, such as 'What idea, if any, do you have of the second law of thermodynamics?', and an air of goggle-eyed stupefaction comes over the party. When...