Word: pined
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...trapper in Easton, N.H., showed me the pelt of a golden red fox he trapped last week, and carefully compared it to similar pelts he's taken in previous years. "The weathah's been tricky foh the pahst coupla wintahs," he told me, taking a big piece of a pine branch out of his mouth. "But, t'ain't gonnah suhprise me if that theha fella is tryin to tell us somethin of this wintah...
...Mount Mohawk Shelburne 2 T-bars 300 11 Mount Tom Holyoke 2 chairs, 2 T-bars, J-bar 700 12 Mount Watatic Ashby 2 T-bars 300 13 Otis Ridge Otis J-Bar, Pomalift, 2 J-bars 350 14 Pheasant Run Leomineter 2 T-bars 225 15 Pine Ridge Barre 2 T-bars 210 16 Wachusett Mountain Princeton 2 T-bars 650 17 Ward Hill Shrewsbury 2 T-bars 200 VERMONT 18 Bolton Valley Bolton 4 Chairs 1,100 19 Bromley Mountain Manchester 3 chairs, 5 J-bars, Pomalift 1,525 20 Burke Mountain East Burke chair...
Ford's most important stop was with Soviet Party Boss Leonid Brezhnev at an isolated compound of wooden and concrete dachas amid oak, birch and pine trees about 15 miles north of Vladivostok, home port for the Soviet Pacific fleet. Soon after reaching the camp by special train from the military airfield where Air Force One had landed, Ford and Brezhnev sat down in a conference room overlooking Amur Bay for talks that lasted all afternoon, into the evening and part of the next morning...
...touch of unintentional irony, serenaded Ford with the University of Michigan fight song, The Victors. Hirohito took Ford to the moated Imperial Palace to meet Empress Nagako and exchange gifts: from the royal couple, a 2½%-ft. Kutani porcelain plate; from Ford, a Steuben crystal work engraved with pine and fir trees...
...woolly bear caterpillar is ominously darker this season. For legions of hunters, woodsmen and students of weather arcana, the evidence is plain-a harsh winter lies ahead. The omens, they warn, are all but unanimous: animal fur is thicker, the perch are running deeper, and the pine tree is unusually laden with seeds. Linwood Rideout of Bowdoinham, Me., a hunting guide for 40 years, gauges the se verity of the winter to come by the relative whiteness of a wild goose's breastbone after the bird has been roasted and eaten. He last week reported the bone "as white...