Word: winterers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...nation had suffered more terribly than Czarist Russia as World War I entered its third year in 1917. It was not only the estimated 6,000,000 Russian dead and wounded in the trenches. At home, the winter had been cruelly severe even by Siberian standards. Russia's rickety railroads were no longer able to funnel sufficient food into the cities, and bread lines in the capital of Petrograd (now Leningrad) grew longer each day. The orgies and intrigues of the Czarina's mad mystic Rasputin had riven Nicholas II's court. It was in this chill...
...aggressive power, that Lenin's hard-eyed coalition of workers and soldiers could exploit. Backed by Trotsky and the youthful Iosif Stalin, Lenin late in October sent his armed Bolsheviks to take over all the main government buildings in Petrograd. Kerensky's government was besieged in the Winter Palace. When it refused to surrender, the cruiser Aurora fired a warning blank, the palace was stormed, and the Cabinet arrested-save for Kerensky, who managed to escape. The coup d'état was complete in Petrograd; democracy in Russia had been executed by Communist hands...
...still one of the most forbidding mountains in the world. From the floor of the Susitna River valley, 1,500 ft. above sea level, the mountain sweeps to 20,320 ft. above central Alaska in a single cascade of rock and ice. In summer, McKinley is merely inhospitable; in winter, it is deadly. For one thing, it is among the coldest places on earth. Actual temperatures range to as low as-100°. Until Feb. 28, no one had climbed Mount McKinley in the wintertime. The men who did it finally made their way back to civilization last week...
...been hastily released to stimulate construction, money has been funneled into the mortgage market to stimulate home building. The Administration also got valuable aid from an occasional antagonist over interest rates. The Federal Reserve Board, spurred into activism by the appointment of new young economists, has worked through the winter to make money looser. Mandatory reserves at banks have been lowered by $850 million in order to free cash for loans. After a meeting of the Federal Reserve's Open Market Committee last week, $1.3 billion in Government securities were bought up to free still more money for lending...
...This has been," he adds, "the bloodiest winter anyone can remember...