Word: snow
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Bridges family lives alone on a ranch in an isolated valley of the Sierra Nevada at the turn of the century. One night, during the first snow of the year, one of the sons awakes in the bunkhouse to hear the cattle crying far out in the storm. Subsequently he and one of his brothers ride out to investigate; a few hours later his body is carried back to the ranch slung to his horse. His brother remains in the mountains to hunt down the killer...
Inactive since 1933 and unsealed for years, Colombia's snow-capped Purace Volcano seemed just the place for an adventurous outing. From the high school at Popayan 24 miles away, 18 students and a truck driver set off one morning last week to climb the mile-high mountain. Except for two students who got tired and lagged a quarter mile behind, the climbers had no trouble getting close to the top. Just as they opened a bottle of rum to celebrate their easy success, a terrific explosion shook Purac...
Back at the ranch house, Arthur's return lets loose a flood of repressed passion, recriminations and superstitious maundering that Novelist Clark's meager story structure is too fragile to bear. What happens out on the snow-covered range is more successful and easily the most exciting part of the book. In a first-rate section of more than 100 pages, Curt's pursuit of the cat becomes a thriller with symbolic moral overtones that will remind some readers of Moby Dick. The cunning of the cat, the cold, the lack of food, the growing image...
...miscellaneous inefficiencies. The Metropolitan District Obligation, a publicly owned bond issue that had been paying an exorbitant interest rate for thirty years was not refinanced; the antiquated system of depreciation was never changed; and the cities and towns with MTA track running through them never reimbursed the MTA for snow removal. Probably $6,000,000 of the deficit is represented in these and the many other small bookkeeping complexities that permeated the old El accounting...
Neither Rain, nor Snow. In Los Angeles, Postman William E. Lilley Jr., arrested for hiding almost 5,000 undelivered letters in his apartment, explained that "I would just get tired and take some letters home ... I fully intended to deliver them in the due course of time...