Word: snowmen
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...more than a foot harder to climb in a hundred years than it is today) and explains mountain weather with a clarity some science writers would do well to emylate. He speaks knowledgeably of avalanches, snow and the life that lives on mountains - from lemmings and insects to the snowmen, abominable and otherwise, who find everything from adventure to a quiet home in the stratosphere...
...Harvard snowmen skied to their second straight tenth-place finish in last week's winter carnival at Williams. The University of Vermont buried the rest of the field by more than 80 points, triumphing in all four events...
...Novak St. sleds lie sprawled on condominium steps and a few snowmen deck the lawns. Sometimes the children point at the Rath place and whisper about her--while the adults are busy with the New Year. The Rath's new neighbor, Mary Beth Twyman, aged 19, was married two days ago Saturday in Holy Cross Chapel in a waltz-length white peau--de--soire dress and a crown of pink pearls, and as she drove off with her husband in his new model Camaro, a St. Christopher's charm dangled from the rear view mirror. December saw 25 houses finished...
Most other periods of the year--the periods the Faculty was willing to cut--are used for a variety of interesting and important activities. During reading period, for example, students read books, write papers, visit friends, and build snowmen. These activities are educational and enjoyable; exams are neither. Accordingly, they should have been the first things...
...zealous environmentalists, ski-area developers have become abominable snowmen. Those beautiful patterns of milk-white ski runs cut into the side of a mountain seem to be networks of disfiguring scars in the view of some critics. Increasingly, they charge that ski developments cause soil erosion, leak sewage into rivers and streams and lead to the rise of tacky pizza parlors, motels and gas stations. Colorado conservationists recently played a major part in the successful campaign to ban the 1976 Winter Olympics from the state. The California Supreme Court earlier this year slowed construction of high-rise ski condominiums...