Word: winter
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...praise for Harold Wilson have been as scarce as sunshine at his habitual Scilly Isles vacation spot. Merchant Banker Jocelyn Hambro recently called him the worst Prime Minister since Lord North, who presided over the loss of the American colonies. The public, which voted Tory in by-elections all winter and spring, earlier this month gave Wilson the lowest rating that Gallup pollsters have recorded for any Prime Minister since they began sampling in Neville Chamberlain...
...Babe and A Winter's Tale in Georgia. A ruined Southern family waits for the last murderous blow of the Civil War in Sherman's brazen march through the entire swamp of the South. The hurricane comes and the upheaval is as potent as it is wide-ranging. To Mrs. Chestnut, the Southern lady of the manor who tries to preserve her hopes, which comes to mean in the end simply preserving the life of her last son, the effects are puzzling but no more. To the blacks, (the only ones shown in the play are a group of captured...
Remember last summer? Remember "Sergeant Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band"? If you don't you should, because what else was there all winter but that record to drown out the snowstorms and the academic storms and the political storms outside? One wandering spirit, dreaming of sunlit beaches, spent all of the winter reading period attempting to crack the Beatles code. The startling message he discovered in the album buried in the lyrics, the recording and the record jacket, we now present for your amazed perusal...
...August or September, plans call for more sledding on firm ice until the long winter night sets in. They will camp again from October until March when the daily quota of sunlight is large enough for travel, having drifted near the North Pole during that North encampment. Then they will have to race against the spring surface melt and hopefully arrive at Longyearbyen on Spitzbergen Island in mid-June. There the H.M.S. Endurance will be on hand to return them to England
When it is hot like this you want to go somewhere. You can go back to winter in Cambridge, when the snow is dirty gray on the sidewalks and on the curbs. But in the winter you understood the place. And you can think back to winter, like the time last year on Christmas Eve when the cook at the Bick was getting so many orders for English Muffins that he was refusing to make them. And the yellow-haired lady with no teeth who works behind the counter giving orders to the cook was getting very angry...