On the way back through the city streets, Erszebet's fiaker passes laughing Schusterbuben, cobbler's apprentices, tossing snowballs at each other, still wearing their work aprons.

The counter-demonstrators converged on the other side of the barricade, tossing eggs and snowballs at Mr. Demers.

It was a season in which Wyche grabbed a microphone at home in Riverfront Stadium and ordered anyone tossing snowballs thrown out.

Mr. Bush, a varsity baseball player at Yale, tried to show off his pitching arm by tossing snowballs at a sign 25 yards away.

On a recent afternoon they tumbled and tossed snowballs on the sloping yard in front of the residence.

Snowmen toss snowballs back and forth over cars, and reindeer jump through the air across the road.

In Denver, although dawn had not yet broken, children were frolicking in the streets, tossing snowballs, drawn from their homes by the novelty of a blue, luminous blizzard.

He gently tossed melting snowballs at his young son.

His own people watched the new arrivals cautiously, but did not stop what they were doing, whether cooking or tending weapons or tossing snowballs with a child.

Just last week, she said, she had seen him outside the store tossing snowballs with neighborhood children.