Word: winterful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Next day 34-year-old John Gates, editor of the Daily Worker, surrendered in Manhattan. Carl Winter, chairman of the C.P.'s Michigan committee, was picked up in Detroit. Russian-born Irving Potash, chairman of the New York Joint Board of the C.I.O.'s Fur & Leather Workers Union, hustled back from vacation to turn himself in. Still unaccounted for this week: Gilbert Green, the party's leader in Illinois; Robert Thompson, New York State C.P. chairman; Gus Hall, leader of the party's Ohio wing...
...Petersburg in the winter, Igor loved to prowl among the operatic scores of his father, Feodor, a famed basso who was Chaliapin's predecessor at the Imperial Opera. Young Igor was given a "piano mistress" at nine, quickly learned to read music-and improvise. His parents did not want him to be a musician. They packed him off to the University of St. Petersburg to study law-but only after Igor got their permission to study harmony on the side. At the university, Igor made friends with Vladimir Rimsky-Korsakov, and showed his compositions to Vladimir's famous...
...money-$100 million-but it was short of postwar business. The management, which thought there was only a "limited and unprofitable" postwar market for its aircraft engines and planes, wanted to hold the cash to tide the company over the uncertain future. But a group of vociferous stockholders last winter complained that the cash in the mattress alone was about three times the market value of its stock. They wanted some of the cash paid...
...than a dozen companies had probed for oil, hit nothing but dusters. Only Los Angeles' aggressive Richfield Oil Corp. kept on drilling because, as one Richfield executive put it, "our geologists couldn't prove there wasn't oil." There was. Richfield struck its first oil last winter. Last week the company brought in its third well, an 8,000-to-10,000-barrel-a-day gusher that was "choked" down to 600 barrels a day. But it "proved up" the field and made the Cuyama strike the richest in California in ten years...
...began to dictate a novel to Tatyana, speaking the words so "unevenly and hurriedly" that she felt she was "doing something immodest" in hearing them. In the winter of 1864 he nervously read the beginning of the novel, War and Peace, aloud to a few friends; soon after, the first section appeared in the magazine Russky Vestnik, under the title 1805. "[It] still seems a little weak," said Author Tolstoy apologetically. "It will probably go unnoticed...