Word: snowstorms
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...snowstorm of the year came at the wrong time for the team. The squad was driving up to the Lyndonville Invitation Intercollegiate Meet, when the storm caused three of the four cars used for transportation to be wrecked...
While air strikes are dependent on the weather, artillery support is a constant that infantrymen can reckon on. Last week, in a heavy snowstorm, U.S. troops near Yoju edgily waited for a Communist attack. Then, as they heard the muted rustle of outgoing shells through the curtain of the snow, they relaxed. "That's what I like about those gunners," a platoon sergeant said. "Any hour, any weather, always on the ball...
Local Republicans, frisking about him like cherubs in a progress of Apollo, whisked beaming Bob Taft over to G.O.P. county headquarters. There some 4,000 cheering party workers had stomped through a snowstorm to hear him. Taft gave them a rousing pep talk for the approaching municipal elections. Cried he: "We have the issues and will have them in 1952. I don't know who the presidential candidate will be." The crowd...
...point there was a four-hour stop while the engineers built abutments on both sides of a chasm so that a bridge span would reach across. The airplanes silenced much of the enemy fire, except on one agonizing day when the air cover was grounded by a driving snowstorm...
...varsity sailing team scudded through a snowstorm to finish second to Navy in the fourth annual Frostbite Regatta held on the Potomac River Saturday and Sunday. Navy scored 114 points to 108 for Harvard and 104 for Princeton...