Word: snows
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Snow fell in Berlin last week, effacing" some of war's ugly scars. The kids were excited, like kids everywhere, with a good fresh pre-Christmas snow. Some of the grownups were excited, too, for they had plans for the kids. There was going to be a Christmas party in the Admiralspalast Theater for 2,000 youngsters of the U.S., Britain, Russia, France, and their German friends. Then the grownups' plans-as grownups' plans frequently do-went awry...
Outside, in the white unity of snow that blanketed the entire city, the kids still played. For them, Christmas would be little changed. There would be other parties. In the French sector there would be a party for French children, and a party in the British sector for the British kids, and one for American kids in the American sector, and for Russian youngsters in the Russian sector. This was Christmas in Berlin...
...rolling plain of western Kansas, near Goodland, looked like a tinseled Christmas card last week. Light snow covered the fields, and green shoots of winter wheat made sparkling polka dots in the white blanket. It was a picture to cheer not only farmers but the whole...
...anxious months, farmers had feared that the winter wheat crop would be close to a failure. Now the rains and snow of the last two weeks had changed all that. The 1948 yield would not come up to 1947's alltime record, but there was good reason to hope that about 90% of winter wheat acreage would at least be seeded. More than anybody else. Kansas farmers hoped for a white Christmas...
Vacation was coming, all right. The signs were everywhere, and he had expected it even before the display windows appeared. The dining hall was emptying and study cards were already called in, and the boards covering the Widener steps-they always stood for snow and ice. Snow and ice, Vag mused, ice and glasses. Not too much water, he cautioned. No more lethargic lectures, and endless doodling until the bell rang. Soon the bells would be ringing all the time, and breakfast would move up into afternoon, and weekends would mushroom into whole weeks. Tow whole weeks, in fact...