Word: snowing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Under the wet Indiana sky last week the delicate green of winter wheat lighted loam-black fields. The last snow had melted. Fat sows, trailed by stiff-legged shoats, nosed through the early budding clover. Factory-bright tractors roared across the fields; loaded manure spreaders clumped and rumbled. The smell of freshly turned earth was fragrant in the air. It was spring in Tipton County, one of the fattest agricultural areas in the state, and things looked good...
...more that the West was in Berlin to stay. Announcing that the airlift would be stepped up once more, the U.S. commander, Brigadier General Frank Howley, declared last Sunday: "Tomorrow is the first day of spring. Neither the Soviet blockade at the Elbe nor winter's ice or snow have kept food, medical aid and coal from coming into the city. Attempts to scare the population have failed ... It must be clear even to the densest and most ill-willed Communists that their tactics are not succeeding...
That was last month. When Sunshine closed, they put me on a train and sent me up here. The day we got to Lincoln there were six inches of snow on the ground. Anybody who would open a New England track this early would enter his grandmother in a claiming race...
Among those present was a solid nucleas of former Crimson lacrosse (and football) stars: Dick Bernard, last year's All-New England goalie; Eddie Davis and Ned Dowey, bulwarks of the '46 football team: Jay Burley, captain of the '47 lacrosse team: and Don Louria and Don Snow, of last year's squad...
...heavy thaw, meanwhile, will melt off all the present snow, Brooks said. Last year, the final 16 inches disappeared from the Blue Hills in two days of sunshine...