Word: winter
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...winter snows and 20°-below winds whistled down over Sinkiang's reed huts, refugees report that, despite party and army, the Kazakhs have not yet acknowledged their masters...
...best skier, crossed his skis, breaking his leg and the hearts of U.S. ski enthusiasts, who had counted on him to snap Europe's long dominance of the sport, take the U.S.'s first-ever gold medal in the men's events at the 1960 Winter Olympics, scheduled for Squaw Valley, Calif, this February...
...been keeping in inshape between regular games by playing in the "A" division of the Boston Metropolitan Squash League. It has been over five years since the Crimson was able to finish on top in the Metropolitan competition, but this year it has already swept the first of two winter tournaments. If the Harvard players do not win the second, they will play the victors in a tie-breaker next March to determine the League champion...
When the American Medical Association met in Dallas last week for its annual winter clinical sessions, the sun shone brilliantly if coolly over what Texans call the "Land of the Big Sky." But big sky and bright sun are far from being an unmixed blessing, warned Houston's Dr. John M. Knox, a dermatology professor at Baylor University College of Medicine. Along with other skin specialists in the Southwest, he is seeing more and more harmful effects from exposure to the sun, now that leisure time is increasing and proportionately more of it is spent in "healthy" outdoor activity...
...sale when younger brother Anton, 20, quit a promising banking career to take over sales, did so well that by 1897 the company began exporting. In 1898 Anton himself wired home from St. Petersburg the biggest order ever placed: 50,000 bulbs for the Czar's Winter Palace. Dumfounded, Gerard wired back asking how many of the zeros were a mistake. Rewired multilingual Anton impatiently: "Fifty thousand, fÜnfzig tausend, cinquante mille." When Germany later cut the rail link to Russia, Anton hired 70 reindeer and sleighs to get light bulbs through to the imperial court via Finland...