Word: winter
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...POSITIVE SIDE: Though Harvard's traditionally major sports have struggled with dismal winter seasons this year, not all the news is bad. As February brings back a full schedule of events, four Crimson squads carry undefeated records, and three others remain above the .500 level...
STALINGRAD. By the summer of 1942, the German armies had driven deep into Russia, and in August, General Friedrich Paulus' Sixth Army closed in on Stalingrad on the Volga. The Soviets resisted fiercely. As fall and then the bitter winter set in. Paulus' men inched into Stalingrad, fighting house to house. But like Napoleon, Hitler had come too far into Russia and reckoned without the Russian cold. The suffering and bravery of Stalingrad in that terrible winter became a new myth of an enduring Soviet Union. The Red Army, under Georgi Zhukov, managed to encircle Paulus...
Will his departure alleviate a winter of discontent...
...first heavy snows of winter began falling across Iran last week, blanketing once bustling boulevards and the country's strike-bound industrial centers. For a time, even Tehran fell silent, though at least 30 people were killed and more than 120 wounded in clashes in other cities. Iran's revolution was far from over, fueled still by the fact that the Shah had not yet left the country...
Dennis's first year as mayor had indeed been trouble-ridden. In January 1978, during his first weeks in office he and the city's grossly ill-equipped service department had been greeted by some of the worst winter weather in the city's history. Months later, his firing of newly-appointed police chief Richard Hongisto sparked a recall election which eventually fell just 236 votes short of ousting him from office. His administration, staffed primarily by unusually young and inexperienced supporters whom the Cleveland business establishment and press continually charged with ineptitude and hostility, had to deal with...