Word: snowing
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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Long before Christmas, four neat little potted cedars were placed on either side of the White House front door. The "public" Christmas tree, a ten-foot Norwegian spruce glistening with artificial snow and icicles, was set up in the East Room before the broad French windows. On wintery Washington evenings the old house looked like something on a Christmas card-its white expanse gleaming in the shadows, the mellow, warm light from its windows shining through the ancient, weatherbeaten oaks and maples. Poinsettias replaced the ferns in the hallways; wreaths of spruce and pine cones appeared in the windows...
Taking advantage of the early snow, the association opened its season last Saturday (Dec. 7.). Many slope and parking improvements have been made...
...Snow sifted last week through the mountain peaks and troughs of perpendicular little Albania. It laid a white blanket over thousands of stiff dead Italian soldiers on bleak slopes and in forested ravines from Porto Edda, where many of them had landed, northeastward to Lake Ochrida and the east-west gorges of the Shkumin River, where Italian commanders strove to make a stand against the relentless, amazing Greeks. Most Italians abhor cold as they do the sharp Greek bayonet, which Rome last week plaintively called a "barbaric and inhuman" weapon...
Unless Germany should suddenly throw in some effective air power, Italy's payoff in Albania, now that snow was falling, looked at best like a stalemate for some months, a lasting disgrace and a drain on the entire Italian military establishment. If, operating from their new strongholds in Crete, British naval power could gain mastery of the Adriatic, past minefields and submarines, the entire Italian expedition, including last week's reinforcements, might be annihilated, or forced to execute a sorry withdrawal like the British from Norway...
Today everybody knows about Diesel engines. They are everywhere-on streamlined trains, long-distance trucks, planes, ships, submarines. The fire-fated German dirigible Hindenburg was Diesel-powered; so was the big snow cruiser that Admiral Byrd shipped to Antarctica. But in the U. S. few know about the man whose name goes on the engines. Indeed, the word is often written lowercase. In the Encyclopaedia Britannica, Rudolf Diesel's biography gets just six lines...