Word: snows
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Between Snow & Sun. A.U.B.'s beautiful campus occupies a long narrow stretch of hilly ground overlooking the Mediterranean. While some of the 2,500 students splash around in the blue waters or laze in the sun, others are off skiing in the Lebanon Mountains only an hour away...
Armenians have found it easier to get into Russia than to get out. The Turks (who love neither Armenians nor Russians) claim that the few who have escaped have brought a unanimous story of broken Russian promises. They found no houses when they arrived, and snow came early last fall before any could be completed. They lived in the open or in tents. Extra clothing and other possessions were seized by the Russian police...
...time was Christmas Day minus two, 1944; the place, five miles from Bastogne. The swart, short-legged photographer got out of his jeep, climbed an embankment and fired away with his long-lens Contax at some G.I.s advancing across a snow-covered field. Suddenly one yelled and leveled a Tommy...
...Americans, as well as Chileans, took the sun on Portillo's terraces, drank pisco sours†and watched the condors circle high above the glacial Lake of the Incas. Almost everybody turned in at 10 so as to be bright and early for the morning's fresh snow and perhaps a lesson from French ex-World Ski Champion Emile Allais...
Novices rode a ski tow to take their first headers on a broad, snow-padded slope within easy stretcher-bearing distance of the hotel. But Kanonen (experts), led by Skimaster Allais, climbed by ski to the Christ of the Andes for a Schuss of six glorious miles tc Portillo. Or they took a thundering trail three precipitous miles to Juncal where railway handcars pumped them back to Portillo...