Word: snowless
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...DAYS swing onward, galumph-galumph, students leap from their carrels out into the snowless Yard ("I am not a prodigious leaper, I am a bird"). Lights burn late in House rooms ("Look at it this way, Silas, Louis Quinze is to the Pompadour as you are to..."). Some seek recourse to the warm reassurance of love not dependent on academic achievement ("Sally, if I were stupid would you still love me the way I love you?"). Others seek recourse to the warm reassurance of physical exhilaration independent of academic achievement ("I'm not going to get out of shape this...
...days swing onward, galumph-galumph, students leap from their carrels out into the snowless Yard ("I am not a prodigious leaper, I am a bird"). Lights burn late in House rooms ("Look at it this way, Silas, Louis Quinze is to Pompadour as you are to..."). Some seek recourse to the warm reassurance of love not dependant on academic achievement ("Sally, if I were stupid, would you still love me the way I love you?"). Others seek recourse to the warm reassurance of physical exhileration independent of academic achievement ("I'm not going to get out of shape this exam...
From the lush San Joaquin Valley in California to the Rocky Mountains, much of the West is suffering from severe drought. Worst hit is California, where the lack of significant rainfall since the autumn of 1975 cost farmers and ranchers an estimated $437 million last year, and snowless ski resorts have lost $7 million so far this season...
Following two snowless winters, which have spelled near disaster for the New England ski industry, business and tourist officials were merchandising the foliage as never before. Ski areas opened their chair lifts and gondolas for bird's-eye viewing of the foliage, and towns held foliage festivals, turkey shoots and lumberjack breakfasts. Travel agencies booked tree-watching tours on buses, sightseeing boats, antique steam engines and even World War I biplanes...
Vermont ski executives blame their troubles as much on a fairly snowless winter as on the gasoline crunch. Yet in western Massachusetts, which was covered with snow last week, the slopes are still underpopulated. Said Ted Trombley as he surveyed the empty parking lot of his Yankee Motor Lodge near Pittsfield: "Up until now we could blame the weather. But with this gorgeous weekend we just had, we're still off 50%, so we know the problem...