Word: snowdrift
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...that the conqueror was surrounded, the men of the battalion alone among silent enemies, and no man might relax his guard for even a moment. If he did, he disappeared, and some snowdrift received his body. If he went alone to a woman, he disappeared. ... If he drank, he disappeared...
...taken for a ride" in a white car. When the college area had been left the lawmen impressed the culprits with a few terse comments that their actions should not be repeated. Breathing acquiesence they were whisked back to the scene of the crime and left standing in a snowdrift...
Onetime Heavyweight Champion Gene Tunney, in a Stamford, Conn. court, paid a $15 fine for running over a dog, failing to report the accident. Boxer Tunney, lighter on his feet than most distillery board chairmen, then swung unexpectedly through a window, plopped into a snowdrift eight feet below, legged it to a train before news photographers could flash a bulb...
Dance of Death-Helen McCloy-Morrow ($2). The story of a body, uncannily resembling a celebrated debutante, found in a snowdrift, solved by a psychiatrist whose medical and psychological analyses make more sense than scientific details usually do in detective fiction...
...copper. Its salmon shipments have been worth as much as $42,000,000 in a single year. . Alaska cost precisely $7,200,000* ($12 per sq. mi.) when the U. S. Government bought it from Russia, since the Muscovites considered it not much better than a huge, bear-infested snowdrift. Last week, this colossal real-estate coup-engineered by Abraham Lincoln's Secretary of State William Henry Seward-was somewhat inappropriately commemorated in Washington, D. C. Payment of the $7,200,000 was made by a check on the Treasury signed by Treasurer of the U. S. Francis Elias...