Word: outdoor
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...center will have parking for 8,600 cars, 100 air-conditioned stores, which Puckett estimates will gross $2,000,000 a week. Added attractions: an auditorium seating 500 (for auto shows, square dances, etc.), two six-storied office buildings (one for doctors and dentists), several restaurants, a "Kiddieland," an outdoor ice-skating rink, bowling alleys, a carillon...
...missed the yodeling, but we arrived in time for the pig-chase, the wood chopping, and the dancing. Everyone seemed to be having a wonderful time, as good a time, anyway, as they could have had in any hut in the White Mountains. The members of the International Outdoor Club Association are a hearty and fun-loving lot, and on Saturday they had their hearty and fun-loving annual meeting at Wellesley. Harvard, Yale, M.I.T., Brown and lots of other colleges were represented, and many people looked as though they had just come in from hiking or skiing...
warmly bundled up and strengthened by a series of blood transfusions, strolled in his gardens for half an hour, his longest period of outdoor exercise since his collapse a month...
...dark of the year-the winter solstice-is the feast of light. Long ago men lit bonfires to strengthen the expiring sun; the Romans celebrated the seven-day Saturnalia with outdoor illuminations and gifts of candles; the Christians came to honor Christmas with a light-decked tree. For the Jews, the feast of light is Hanukkah...
Glenn reports that one problem is still baffling the special-effects experts: how to make an actor's breath look frosty in an outdoor winter scene. Glenn thought he had solved it by wrapping a piece of dry ice in a sponge and placing it in the actor's mouth: "It worked fine. The actor looked like an express locomotive huffing and puffing on an upgrade." But. regretfully, the idea had to be abandoned because "there was too much danger of the actor's burning his mouth...