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Word: wintered (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...temperature in Quebec City was 10° F., and Princess Grace of Monaco, in town for the annual Winter Carnival and a visit to an old friend, Mrs. Gilles Lamontagne, wife of the mayor, was appropriately cool and collected when newsmen collared her for some comments. On the problem of raising bilingual children (French and English): "I'm still waiting for someone to write a handbook on it." On the trials of being an exactress: she finds it "flattering" to receive film offers but politely declines them. As for films in general: "I'm awfully tired of seeing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Feb. 14, 1969 | 2/14/1969 | See Source »

...winter of 1941-42 was one of the coldest ever endured. Temperatures averaged 4° below zero in January. People died in their apartments, and weakened relatives left them wherever they were-in a bed, at a table, in a chair near a cold stove. Men and women dropped in the streets, dead of hunger and exhaustion, and sometimes their bodies lay untouched for weeks. When they were finally hoisted onto trucks, one observer recalls, they were so frozen that "they gave a metallic ring." The silence of the city was broken only by bouts of German shellfire...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: A Past Too Terrible To Be Buried | 2/14/1969 | See Source »

After barely surviving the first day of competition, Harvard's ski team jumped into fourth place during the final day of the 59th annual Dartmouth Winter Carnival...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Skiers End Fourth In Hanover Meet | 2/11/1969 | See Source »

...highest interest rate on a Government security since the Civil War. The Labor Department reported that in December, consumer prices rose to a point 4.7% above the same month in 1967. That was the sharpest year-to-year increase since prices rose by 5.8% in the first winter of the Korean War. For 1968 as a whole, the rise in the cost of living came out to 4.2%, the largest since the 8% increase of 1951 and far ahead of the 3.2% inflation of 1967. On the average, Americans paid $12.37 for the same goods and services that cost them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Economy: Mixed Symptoms | 2/7/1969 | See Source »

...concert was "a dream come true" for the greatest busker of all, Don Partridge, 26, who plied his trade in the streets of London for five years singing traditional English and American folk songs. One day last winter, a record company executive named Don Paul heard Partridge sing his own song, Rosie, on a street corner; he liked its cheerfulness and Partridge's McCartneyesque style...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Performers: The Rosie Side of the Street | 2/7/1969 | See Source »

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