Word: snow
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...women's team also finished well at Middlebury, despite being forced to hitch-hike to the race after its car died five miles from the Snow Bowl. Top finishes for alpine skiers Kris Hodgkins and Vera Fatjova, and Nordic skier Judy Rubinowitz, qualified all three for the national championships, and gave the team seventh in the alpine competition and tenth overall...
...know how to describe the elephant to a blind man; but how in the world am I going to succeed in describing the texture of snow? How does it sound when it snows, and how does it feel to catch it in one's hands...
Above all, how in the world will I be able to describe how the earth looks after it has snowed for some time? How can I ever bring snow to the world of cocoanut grottos, hybiscus flowers and jasmin bushes? Words are woefully inadequate, I thought...
...thus lost in my problem, I heard the brave snow shovellers in the street wading in snow which had them covered up to their hips. I put on all the layers of clothes my friend said I would need, and came out to the doorstep when my heart jumped...
...Even the old CPI showed prices rising in January at an annual rate of 8.7%, about double the pace in November and December. But according to both of the new indexes, the rate was 10%, which reaches the dreaded double-digit range. The increase was exaggerated by ice and snow that snarled rails and roads in January, leading to shortages that jacked up food prices. But wholesale prices have been rising rapidly enough in the past few months to threaten more jarring consumer-price jumps. Julius Shiskin, the savvy Labor Department statistician who updated the CPI, concedes that the January...