Word: winter
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Prosperity. "Last winter the Administration gave the private citizen and private enterprise a helping hand-not a federal wheelchair. Now the recession is rapidly running out. Personal income is at an alltime high. Last month unemployment dropped by 600,000. Gross farm income, per capita farm income, land values, farm ownership are up or at record highs. We should be able to keep the consumer price level stable over the next year-and isn't that great news for every family in America...
...them over to the authorities as scrap iron." In Honan, it added, peasants complain bitterly about the common messhalls, which prevent them from having friends at home for dinner. In Hopei they worry about having no kitchens of their own or a brick oven to sleep on during the winter...
...Carabiniere. Until she died last winter, Renata Tebaldi's mother accompanied her on all her tours, acted so effectively as a backstage buffer for her daughter that fellow singers affectionately nicknamed her "The Carabiniere." She handled Renata's mail (weeding out the occasional poison-pen letters from over-zealous Callas fans), took care of her clothes and costumes, stationed herself in the wings to minister to Renata with a Thermos jug of warm tea and an emergency flask of brandy when she came offstage. She was quick to resent any affronts to her daughter. Backstage lore...
...portraits within, not the frame without, that make it a sparkling display of French tragicomedy. An irresistible pair are stern father de Gau-grand, a half-mad patrician whose "broad back [extends] like the Great Wall of China," and his wife, who wears newspapers (for warmth) throughout the winter and sits down to all meals in hat and overcoat. Daughter Denise, raised in this nutty household, is more than a bit weak in the head, but far from weak in will-as her three fantastic rescuers discover...
Things did, of course. Sometime between the original event and the recent event--last winter, I think--misfortune befell the 7,000 citizens of Springhill once again. A fire destroyed many of the buildings belonging to Dominion Steel and Coal (known in the brokerage houses and luncheon clubs as "DOSCO"), and the chief misery of the fire, as I remember, seemed to lie in the effect it might have on the future operations of the company. With No. 4 functioning only as an expensive, spacious grave for the victims of the first event and with much surface equipment lost...