Word: frosts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Busiest Christmas was probably Dick Lauterbach's in snow-covered Moscow. Christmas Eve there was a get-together for the little American colony-Christmas Day he played Father Frost by distributing precious American soap to the hotel staff-and next day he impersonated Ambassador Harriman in the annual Moscow correspondents' show...
...Coop, sales of earmuffs, woolen stockings, and gloves have tripled, while underwear remained steady. Earmuffs, scarce because they contain steel, threatened to sell out soon if the frost continues to bite students' ears...
...early night was carpeted with clouds. Beneath, within and over them, flak burst in fitful fire. It was bitter cold. The big, dark planes were sheathed in frost; the men inside them huddled freezing over instruments and guns. The sky was crowded with the ghostly bombers, growling toward Berlin...
...clock the sirens sounded. Over the heart of Nazi Germany, the frost-sheathed bombers opened their bomb bays...
...nurses for the local hospital. But the doctor shortage is acute in Vermont's rural areas, has had some tragic results-e.g., a young boy in one rural town recently died of acute appendicitis for lack of a doctor to diagnose his case. When Dr. Harry Leslie Frost of Pittsford died, he left thousands of patients in the town and surrounding mountains without medical care. The young physician in nearby Proctor, who is trying to cope with Dr. Frost's practice as well as his own, now has between 6,000 and 7,000 people...