Word: winter
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...large the East Coast could take a vicious swipe of winter in its stride, reminding itself that this was the way the winters used to be in the good old days. But in the South, where the good old days used to be warm and balmy, the winter of the big freeze would be long remembered in terms of heartbreak and heavy losses...
...cold wave hurt most in Florida, frost-singed nearly to its tip. Since December, southern Florida has had six freezes (three more than in any year since records began some 90 years ago), and weathermen are marking this as the state's worst winter...
Cattlemen also were hard hit. In recent years Florida's year-round pasturage, which normally eliminates the need of laying by hay and feed for winter, has helped make the state an important beef producer. Last week Florida's 1,400,000 head of Brahmas, Santa Gertrudis, Herefords and Aberdeen-Anguses were so weakened by malnutrition and weeks of slushing around in soggy pastures that cattlemen feared deaths would reach 270,000. Deaths already had decimated Collier County's 25,000 herd, and the area's spring calf crop was expected to be only...
Films of new Soviet weapons paraded in Moscow last November shook a cherished tenet of Western military men: that what the West's forces lacked in quantity, they made up in quality of weaponry. Army Chief of Staff General Maxwell D. Taylor warned in early winter that the Soviet army is equipped with tactical rockets and missiles "to which we have no response." While the U.S. has much first-rate equipment under development, Russia has it in the field. Declared U.S. Deputy Defense Secretary Donald A. Quarles: "Let us concede them [the Soviets] general superiority in their present ground...
...Winter's Tale (Paul Winter; Offbeat Records). These songs "for happy people with happy problems," composed and sung in various dialects by Disk Jockey (and onetime philosophy teacher) Paul Winter, take some savage and often hilarious swipes at diverse targets-among them Schopenhauer, Orval Faubus and the Organization Man ("I am a team man. . . I get my steam, man, from that doll Normie Vincent Peale"). Among Winter's best: a "film clip" from a Brief Encounter-styled British movie entitled The Heart Is a Desperate Delicatessen; a monologue in which Producer "Boris Ishtar" rages at his star, "Rock...