Word: snowed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...better take this. It might be cold up there." It was. The gathering party's destination, Fort St. John, B.C., lay smothered under snowdrifts 8 ft. high. But to Francis Murray Patrick McMahon, temporary coat-dispenser and full-time oil-and-gas tycoon, a town buried under snow was no problem. Calling for "all the tractors from Dawson creek to the Alaska border," McMahon's men within hours cleared off Fort St. John's airport, spread gravel on the walks at nearby Taylor and overlaid it with miles of corrugated cardboard...
Most of the hill-less course is run over dirt, grass, and gravel, since it follows the riding path along the Charles past the race track, to the snow plow storage garages, opposite the police station, thence around a small loop, and back again to Newell along the same path...
...soda jerk and clothing-store clerk), ran the 100-yd. dash on the track team. "I was getting awfully tired of running second all the time," he recalls. "Alongside the university there's some railroad spurs. I got the idea that running through the spurs in the snow I'd have to lift my legs, I'd have to get strength, I'd have to get stamina. Any Chinaman can see that." Result: a ten-flat 100 and a university record that managed to stand for five years...
...occupied Norway the symbol for defiance of Hitler's Nazis was not Winston Churchill's stubby-fingered V for victory, but an H crossed by the figure 7. Painted on walls, tramped out in the snow, scratched on the sides of Nazi troop trains, chalked on Gestapo command cars, perpetually erased, perpetually reappearing, the omnipresent H7 was a perennial reminder to the people of Norway and to their occupiers that the true sovereign of their indomitable spirit was their exiled King Haakon...
...ideal of a welfare state that has not sacrificed efficiency or freedom. But Tata is impatient of Americans, feels they do not understand his country's "mixed economy," says: "I wish that sometimes in America points of view were expressed not always in terms of jet black or snow white, that someone did not have to be either Communist or antiCommunist, or wholly a socialist or wholly a capitalist...