Word: snowing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Winthrop broke the ice in the first period when a pass from Dave Aloian to Pete Ways netted the only Puritan touchdown. However Kirkland evened the score in the first half on a pass play from Bob Snow to Jerry Glynn which covered about fifty yards...
Accompanying a recipe for Rhode Island Johnny Cake was the notation that "it was once called journey cake, I am told, because travelers mixed the corn meal with water or snow (we prefer the local white corn meal). But let me warn you that the shade of my Great Aunt Adeline, from whom I originally got the recipe, will surely haunt you if you put anything but butter on this mouth-watering concoction. Syrup and such will overcome the delicate flavor...
...first big snow of the season hit Moscow last week. It soon began to melt and turn to slush. In spite of the slush, young Muscovites turned up coated and booted in several of the city's squares where wooden platforms had been laid for dancing. The gala occasion: the 30th anniversary of Russia's Komsomol (Young , Communist League), the elite, junior grade, of the Soviet Union...
...year ago, Dr. C. Howard Curran, curator of insects and spiders at New York's American Museum of Natural History, took a look at the woolly bear caterpillars and noted that they all had narrow bands. Sure enough, along came last winter's big snow and ice storms. Curran decided to take another look at woolly bears...
...area around Stalingrad, where Field Marshal von Paulus and his 330,000 men of the German Sixth Army were ordered to fight to the bitter end-and nearly half were obliterated in the space of seven weeks. Plievier describes, with ruthless exactness, just how they were obliterated-how snow and ice shattered their limbs like dry wood, how they starved on dried peas and hot water while suffering horribly from dysentery and typhus, how they committed suicide and fell under fire, until after ten weeks only some 50,000 human wrecks remained able at last to raise their arms...