Word: winterers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Moscow Correspondent Jerrold Schecter. The extra day has piled 10 million extra people on top of the 18 million already using the council's facilities. The demand for sports goods has grown so great that hockey sticks disappeared from the shelves of Moscow's stores this winter. There is still a two-to three-year wait for new automobiles, and drivers who plan a long trip must load up with food and extra gas before setting out, since there are few service stations and no motels and restaurants outside the cities...
...most welcome new diversion brought by the five-day week is the country weekend. Ten years ago, Muscovites could not understand why Stockholm and other Western capitals emptied out every weekend. Now everyone who can gets out of town, going to dachas in the neighboring countryside or to hastily winterized summer camps for a cheap weekend of cross-country skiing. The two-day weekend also means more time for old-fashioned hobbies such as stamp collecting and chess. Televised soccer and hockey games are popular, and a few privileged children have even taken up gocart racing. Winter and summer, Muscovites...
...good and holy in America--and, at the time, little but the New Yorker was--had become something of an enfant terrible who seemd to be puckishly plucking away at the nation's G-string. For besides needling the New Yorker, Wolfe was also a satorial scandal. In mid-winter he wore white suits, in summer, bright orange--all in a definitely pre-Krackerjackian era. And the people he wrote about! People like Baby Jane Holzer, Murray the K, Ed "Big Daddy" Roth, Junior Johnson--the very inhabitants of Confidential and Hot Rod who had usurped the right to dictate...
Flanagan, Powlison, and Bragg are all members of the Crimson swimming team. Powlison, who competes in the long freestyle events, is a member of the sophomore corps expected to strengthen the Harvard swimming team in the next two years after exceptional performances last winter...
Throughout Challenge's winter term, teachers shared many similar frustrations. The ideal and abstract conceptions put forth during Orientation did not seem to apply to te concrete situation of the classroom. Teachers found discipline hard to dispense having seldom before been in positions of authority...