Word: snowing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...fathered a girl, but his wife was arrested by the French and died in prison while he was in China; he has since remarried. An emotional man whose temper often got the better of his cool-and earned him the nickname of "The Volcano and the Snow"-he has, at times, been put down by Ho. An outburst against a French general in 1945 cost him a place on the negotiating team that tried to win independence from France at the end of World War II. A running feud with two powerful Politburo members-whose pro-Peking sentiments were resented...
...same kind of low-level alpha radiation, officially described as "negligible," was discovered on the icebound bay off northwestern Greenland last week. The U.S. airmen who detected the radioactivity reached the blackened, 500-yd.-long crash site on Eskimo dog sleds, the only means available in the swirling snow and 50-m.p.h. winds of the dark Arctic winter...
...exhilarated," Romney confessed in his hotel late one night. All day he had tramped relentlessly through snow and ice at 5 m.p.h. to buttonhole voters, or had communed with groups of from 20 to 100 in homes rigged out as Romney headquarters across the state...
...excluded everyone but half a dozen relatives of the defendants and twelve or more Soviet journalists, whose reports never appeared in Pravda or Izvestia. Outside the courthouse, in temperatures that reached 50 below zero, protesters crowded against police barricades and dashed from door to door through the swirling snow, only to be turned away because they lacked official passes. Police pushed back a thin, weather-beaten man several times until someone yelled: "What kind of disgraceful situation is this? The father of Galanskov cannot even get in to the trial of his own son?" Finally the door opened...
...Cambridge firemen tried to save some of Swamy's handwritten notes by rushing into the burning building and throwing them out the window. But they are still lost in the snow, and Swamy said the ink has probably been washed away...