Word: snowed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Technicolor camera sweeps through Palladian palaces and country estates and catches pleasant fragments of the earthly paradise inhabited by Russia's landed gentry-the balls and hunts, the troika races and officers' revels. The duel between Pierre and Dolokhov is fought in a dawnlit forest where snow and awakening sky gleam with as many frosty gradations of white as a pearl fresh from the sea. When Pierre, a civilian at the front, hears the opening guns of the bloody concert at Borodino, he runs awkwardly along a hillside, trying to peer ahead through a tangle of shrubbery until...
Like her elders, Anne sometimes lets the animals get out of hand. Her title story is a well-polished but thin cliche: the blue dog, an outcast, dies happy in the cold because the snow lets him pass for white. But Anne is rarely that gushy, precious or explicit. Indeed, though she sees with a child's fresh eye, she has a special gift for the macabre. She raises an unlikely chill with the tale of a lady whose poodle comes to tea in a dinner jacket. She turns a trick of perspective to eerie effect by playing...
Dust on the Boulevard. Chibougamau's engulfing flood of men and money has produced only the slightest civilizing effects on a town that is still rude and crude. Cold westerly winds deliver a raw penetrating drizzle on one out of every two summer days. One night last week snow fell. Even so, cars churning through the town's main street-pridefully named the Boulevard-kick up clouds of chalk-colored dust; paved streets and sidewalks are still luxuries for the future. Chibougamau's population has shot up to more than 2,500 permanent residents; their new clapboard...
...spent and $4.03 saved. The State University of Iowa also had financial news. Of the university's 9,000 students (1955-56), 55% got part-time jobs through the student placement office. They worked as janitors, lab assistants, waiters and clerks, mowed lawns, washed windows, shoveled snow. Total earnings...
...according to the AEC's own reports) was exploded on a tower on a small coral island. Its fireball dug a deep crater and tossed millions of tons of pulverized coral into the air. This material, made highly radioactive by contact with the fireball, was the poisonous "atomic snow" that settled on boats, islands and water 220 miles away...