Word: cincinnati
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Still, it is the brutal and unrelenting cold-the Big Freeze -that has transformed the inevitable grousing about the weather into personal agony and national hardship. The furies of January have been unrelenting. Alltime low temperatures were recorded last week in Cincinnati (-25), Miami Beach ( + 32), Palm Beach ( + 27). Single-day records for the date were set in New York City (-1); Dayton (-21); and Lynchburg, Va. ( - 8). At -19, Chicago experienced its coldest day in this century. Peoria, Ill. ( - 25), had not been so cold since 1884. In Rice Lake, Wis., the temperature plunged...
...Kentucky Wildcats, despite a 9-1 slate, moved up a notch into second place above undefeated Cincinnati and Alabama. The three squads received eight, five, and one first place votes, respectively...
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Died. Marion Rombauer Becker, 74, co-author (with her late mother Irma Rombauer) of Joy of Cooking, America's bible of the kitchen; of cancer; in Cincinnati. Twelve editions of Joy have guided millions of cooks in such divergent intricacies as skinning a beaver tail and creating a successful souffle since the work was first published...
...such moments the satirist turns reactionary. That is why Wolfe wiggles his eyebrows when he hears wealthy Easterners proclaim a distaste for fancy living and a love of the underprivileged: "Everybody had sworn off fashion, but somehow nobody moved to Cincinnati to work among the poor." That is why he deflates the comic-strip balloons that people who think they are humane so often utter: "Or as a well-known, full-grown socialite. Amanda Burden, said ... 'The sophistication of the baby blacks has made me rethink my attitudes.' " That is why he mocks the now pieties...