Word: snowstorms
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...cardboard-box manufacturer, who was a member of the first team to scale "unconquerable" Mount Fitz Roy (alt. 10,958 ft.) in Patagonia, the climbers approached the Dru with a healthy respect. In earlier assaults on it, they had been beaten by a rockslide and a five-day snowstorm. This time hunger and thirst stopped them about 650 ft. from the summit after they had scaled an obstinate dièdre, a rock ledge jutting out like the edge of doom. Forced to return to their base camp, the mountaineers picked up more food and an extra supply of pitons...
...year-old Navajo girl named Jean Smith was Dr. Clark's next miliary case. She weighed 79 lbs., had an agonizing, rattling cough and had trouble breathing. Moreover, says Dr. Clark, the X ray of her lungs "looked like a snowstorm." Under treatment with isoniazid she soon got rid of her fever, cough and shortness of breath. Jean has eaten...
Like many a U.S. minister, Adventist Rustad had looked enviously at the movie drive-in crowds. In Yankton, S. Dak. three years ago, he gathered a crowd for a drive-in religious service - only to have it melt away when an early snowstorm struck. When he went to Arizona, he tried again. Last year, with Adventist Elder Lawrence E. Davidson of Phoenix, he rented a small lot for the purpose. Services went so well that this year the Adventists took over two larger plots, one of them in the Negro section of town...
Yesterday's blinding snowstorm tied up air and motor traffic along the southern New England coast and buried Greater Boston in more than six inches of snow for the second time within ten days...
...like a barbarian, like an infant." But Guys stuck to it, and ten years later was good enough to get assignments as an artist-reporter for the Illustrated London News. "Do as you please with the landscape," he once wrote his editors from the Crimean battlefront. "Put in a snowstorm if you want." But, he insisted, "please respect the uniforms as I've drawn them. They are absolutely exact...