Word: winterizer
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...animals highest on the food chain, the dinosaurs. Eventually the iridium-enriched debris, circulating around the world in the atmosphere, would have settled like a sprinkling of black snow over much of the globe. (It was the Alvarezes' theory that helped to shape the now familiar concept of nuclear winter...
...eastern Montana area, he declared that the layer of iridium and the bones of the last surviving dinosaur were too far apart to share any meaningful connection. Besides, he asked, why should the mammals have survived any Cretaceous catastrophe? Says he: "If you're going to have a nuclear winter killing off the dinosaurs, why didn't it kill off everything else...
...parties all the time. Ellie Sharp, who spent the past six years at the marina with her husband Pat aboard their 39-ft. sailboat, the Tranquillity II, liked to collect everyone's aluminum cans, sell them and use the money for the regular Saturday hamburger cookouts. In the winter, when the weather was right, 25 or 30 people would wander down to the end of the dock to a little pavilion they called Fiddler's Green and spend the cocktail hour watching for the elusive sunset phenomenon known as the green flash. The ships' store was out there, with...
...marina fills seven acres, more or less, of this point of land, and even the most sentimental observer can see that it is a piece of property "ripe for development." It is humble, but every winter it was home to about 120 boats. The wooden docks were lined with boxes full of tomato and lettuce plants. Bicycles, with the chrome abandoned to rust, stood unlocked next to supermarket baskets painted to match the vessels they served. Boats with some chance of being called yachts were berthed on A and B docks. The people tied up inside the piers next...
Until a few weeks ago, Nesselwang's worst fate was being inundated by thousands of skiers every winter. Now the tranquillity of the small Bavarian town is being threatened by visitors of another kind: veterans of two SS divisions, who intend to hold reunions there. The town council did not disguise its unhappiness with those plans but stressed that it could do nothing because the veterans' groups are legally entitled to meet. In protest, however, the town band has refused to play for the gathering. For their part, leaders of the two SS "old comrades' associations" insisted last week that...