Word: winter
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...sure, there always were a few who complained of irony in the word "jolly," but the wise knew this to be in jest. There were others who publicly scorned the walk over autumn leaves or mid-winter slush to the stuffy, overcrowded dance floors, but the floors never ceased to be packed. Some criticized the innocuous punch, the bad music, and the atmosphere, but everyone knew these scoffers were only the frustrated, the timid, the jealous and the lazy. All the world liked jolly-ups, and all the world was jolly. No one feared, for the jolly...
...clause that the city fathers would not badger him with too many conferences. As an artist-architect, he controls the design to the smallest detail. As a man, he stays in tiptop shape, swimming in the icy Finnish lakes in summer, going cross-country on skis during the winter...
...Harvard-Leningrad program, announced last winter, was the first interinstitutional step under the general Lacey-Zaroubin agreement worked out two years ago. An affiliation between Columbia and Moscow University followed shortly after the Harvard move, and Yale recently made public an exchange agreement with the University of Kiev...
...additional signs of decadence have manifested themselves at the Annex, it was discovered yesterday. First, Percussion, the Radcliffe-published newspaper, begun only last winter, has apparently died over the summer...
...surprisingly high rate of giving by upperclassmen should eliminate the need for additional financing which was contemplated last winter...