Word: snowing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Hissing Geese. Lucy Blachly, who landed the $40-a-month job at the school in 1907 when she was only 17, paid $15 a month for an unheated room at the McClarty farmhouse, hiked li miles to school each morning through snow or mud with two of her pupils, Homer and Percy McClarty. The three clung together for mutual comfort: she feared the farmyard geese that "hissed and nipped at my legs above my buttoned boots"; they feared the somber Blackfeet Indians, who fished in the Flathead River. The trio hurried along, since before every class Miss Blachly...
Looking back, Jeannette Kleinhans Lussier, 64, recalls most fondly the "wonderful times" playing games at lunch time, such as Last Man Out, run sheep run, Pom-Pom-Pullaway, red rover and, after the first snow, fox and geese. Homer McClarty, now an affluent well driller in Kalispell, still boasts of how his "big yellow dog Snipe" attended school with him every day for seven years, huddled close to the stove with the kids on the worst days and really deserved "a graduation certificate...
...Snow in her Hands. Joseph H. Hirshhorn, whose 5,800-work, $35-50 million art collection will soon be installed in its own permanent museum in Washington, admits that he and his wife bought their Greenwich, Conn., estate in 1961 largely because of the setting it would provide for their sculpture. "I could just picture the Henry Moore under the trees," he says, "the David Smith beside the pool, Rodin's Burghers by the front door. In fact, I bought the property in 20 minutes...
Roiling Killer. Nearly every summer the Chena, which snakes through Fairbanks running south to join the Tanana, leaps toward flood stage as winter snows melt in the mountains. But this time, fed by the abnormally heavy rain fall, which in turn washed down summer snow from the mountains, the Chena became a roiling killer...
...Searing snow and seismic gales tore at them, and when Wilcox and his band, stumbling down to a prearranged meeting site at 15,000 ft., waited two days without further contact with the higher party, an attempt to turn back was thwarted by the storm. After four more days, with supplies low, Wilcox and his group were in dire peril themselves until a party from the Mountaineering Club of Alaska came to their aid. After a harrowing nighttime descent, Wilcox swam four icy streams to reach the Wonder Lake ranger station, which sent a helicopter back to rescue his four...