Word: wet
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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With snow flurries on the way, skiing conditions at Thorn Mountain and Mount Sunapee in New Hampshire, Pleasant Mountain in Maine, and Claremont, Mass. are very favorable. Fifteen inches of base and about 5 inches of wet surface exist in most areas...
Jackson: Black Mountain: less than one inch wet surface. Fair upper and lower trails...
Jackson: Thorn Mountain: 6 inches wet surface. Good upper and lower...
...West, switchboard operators and Western Union men urgently summoned the President's staff, his airplane crew and the press. Reporters came running in off the beaches in wet swimming trunks, and dashed into the pressroom. Then came the announcement: Harry Truman had suddenly decided to cut short his vacation, and would fly back to Washington a week ahead of schedule "for a meeting ... of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and representatives of the State Department." The reporters immediately began to clamor: What's wrong? A crisis...
...current outbreak is so severe that Communist authorities are worried about a drop in output. They have ordered miners to wet down the pit walls, to lay the dust, and to wear long rubber boots. But it is impossible to suppress the dust entirely, and the Russians are not copying the German plan of rotating the miners after two years. Before that is likely to happen, many a Schneeberg slave worker will be dead...