Along the way, they captured Nazi soldiers and towns and freed slave laborers; they marched through knee-deep snow, hid behind tanks to avoid enemy fire and watched their best company commander shot to death during battle, according to Mr. Manchester.
So put on a tank top, snow pants, rain boots, gloves and some sunscreen and stop complaining.
When we had finished filling the Bluetears' propane tanks and Snow Wolf went to pay the bill, there was a palpable sense of relief, as though Lee and I were in class together and the teacher had just left the room.
The drilling was done not mechanically but thermally, using a steam drill that consisted of a propane burner, a steel tank to hold snow, and a long rubber hose.
The Kempinski, at the foot of the slopes, offers a luxurious spa, with an array of pools, hot tubs, steam rooms and saunas, a flotation tank and a snow room - not to mention affordable massages.
The stoops are full, the snow cones drip and another tank-top summer slides on by.
The second studied the effect of the gas environment around the orbiter using ultraviolet absorption measurements, as a precursor to ultraviolet equipment being designed for Spacelab 2. A third, sponsored by the Japanese Asahi Shimbun newspaper, tried to use water vapor in two tanks to create snow crystals.
It will be a place where you can buy a pair of secondhand snow skis or a functional toilet tank or a Barack Obama commemorative plate ($23) or an unused SpongeBob SquarePants alarm clock ($18).
Down the street, Anne Bentrewicz, well into her 70's, watched from her kitchen window, thinking about her childhood and her father, who worked shoveling snow off the top of the tanks.
Seven skiers and three snowboarders were loaded inside our snowcat's heated cabin as its tank treads chewed through the snow.
