Word: snowdrift
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Weathered In. In Reno, when his sedan stalled in a snowdrift, Robert Gibbs hopped out, trampled the hood down to the engine, ripped off the ventilator flaps, pulled off the door handles, smashed all the windows, walked away...
...clattering combines northward in the annual harvest of winter wheat. The Shorthorns and Herefords lumbered lazily across the Great Plains; 13 million new beef calves bellowed at the smoky bite of the branding iron. Down South, in the weeks before the cotton bloomed white, stretching like a giant snowdrift from North Carolina through Texas, there were watermelons and peaches to be picked, small grain crops to be brought in, tobacco to be topped and suckered, beef and dairy cattle to be tended...