Word: winter
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Tsongas said in response to a question that the United States faced a major shortage of home heating oil as early as next winter, adding, we are in the last stage of an era when we can rationally consider" the energy problem...
...person freezes to death next winter, panic will set in," Tsongas said. He said he favored eventually switching to renewable energy sources and using conventional nuclear power, "at least to some extent," while the transition was being made...
...Eastern Mountain Sports Inc. in Boston. "He's onstage, he spends money on clothes, he's into a relatively short period of high energy. The cross-country skier is just the opposite. He's relaxed, he sets his own pace. Skiing cross-country is the winter counterpart to jogging." Increasingly, though, cars heading into the mountains carry both downhill and touring skis...
Clothing gathers mildew. Water seeps through the seams, while drinking water is usually in short supply. In some areas, winter is a constant war against cold weather. Live-aboards cannot take for granted such mundane matters as toilets and garbage disposal, laundry, showering, washing, utility and telephone connections. Says New Yorker Susan Elliott, 33, who runs a happy ship with Daughter Tania, 11: "It makes living on a New Hampshire farm seem easy." (She tried that too.) A less tangible disadvantage is that boat people lose their old landlubber friends. Also, banks and stores sometimes look on a local Sinbad...
THERE COULDN'T BE a better time of year to see this show. Winter is clearly an idea whose time has passed, but spring is still just an empty dream that evaporates when a 40 degree day is succeeded by an ice storm. And for those confined to house arrest in Cambridge, this is the time that sends one fleeing--to escape in some nostalgic remembrance of high school or the promise of some real world release, somewhere down the road...