Word: cold
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Elements. In Fort Scott, Kans., Weather Observer Frank Hewitt resigned after explaining that there was just too much ice, cold and snow for one man to cope with...
...When the cold struck, upper-class Cantonese got out kerosene stoves to heat their homes. Visitors from the north and foreign diplomats retreated to cold, damp, black-&-white-tiled hotel rooms where they vainly tried to fight off the chill. Said one homesick New Yorker: "You'd think we were exiled in the men's room of the Pennsylvania Station...
Success had had its bitter side for little Willie Pep. As fancy a featherweight as ever tied on gloves, he won so many fights (134 against one defeat) that home-town Hartford, Conn, took him for granted. Willie grew cocky and careless. Result: last October he was knocked out cold by Challenger Sandy Saddler. Willie lost his featherweight crown, but in defeat Hartford began to rally round him and he became a town hero on a comeback trail. The home folks bellowed for a return engagement...
Last week, spectators jammed the small gallery at Haverford's (Pa.) Merion Cricket Club to watch 21 topflighters fight it out for the national singles championship. It was like looking down from the observer's roost of an operating room: the walls cold and white, the temperature a chilly 45°. The way the experts played it, squash racquets was a test of tactics and attrition. With slim-throated, roundheaded racquets, they slammed a little black ball around the wooden-walled court. The trick was to stand in midcourt (from which most defensive shots could be readily reached...
Pennsylvania's hot and cold basketball team got hot in the first half against Harvard Saturday, scored 46 points, and then coasted the rest of the way to win, 76 to 71. It was the tenth win of the season for the Quakers, and the 12th loss in a row for the Crimson...