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Word: winterful (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Where did that leave the crisis? The Western powers could go on supplying Berlin for months. Some experts in Washington now believed that the volume transported could be greatly increased and that Berlin could even be supplied with coal through the winter. The operation would be fantastically expensive, but worth it, politically. The Berlin lift was a kind of 20th Century miracle play representing both the West's humanitarian purpose and its military strength. Said a high-ranking U.S. air officer last week: "A year's supply of Berlin would be cheap compared...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: International: The Word Is Liberty | 7/26/1948 | See Source »

...travelers hit the Nationalist lines again at Kaiyuan on the Mukden perimeter. They have been on the road five or six days. They have slept in their rags, sometimes on boards in wayside inns, more often on unsheltered ground, blessing themselves that it is not the icy Manchurian winter. They have eaten the food they brought along-mostly wheaten cakes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: 30,000,000 Uprooted Ones | 7/26/1948 | See Source »

Jane Cowl, fluttery, hankie-flapping veteran of 37 stage years, who had had some trouble with a backing taxi in Manhattan last winter (broken leg), had more of the same with a station wagon in La Jolla, Calif.; as it rounded a curve she fell out the door, suffered a banged head, cut arm, skinned knee. Two days later she was back at rehearsal for a straw-hat performance of The First Mrs. Fraser...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: The Solid Flesh | 7/26/1948 | See Source »

...Last winter, Thurman feels, the experiment really came of age. With some misgivings he had gone to serve as visiting lecturer in philosophy and religion at the University of Iowa. When he returned he found that the congregation had stopped calling it "Fellowship Church" or "the church" and had begun to call it "our church." Says he: "Now comes the temptation to say, 'We have a very nice atmosphere here-let's freeze...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Fellowship Church | 7/26/1948 | See Source »

Matthew Fox has a solid reputation as an expert kibitzer and operator, with an inordinately sharp eye for a fast buck. A movie man by trade, he has backed such side bets as Bub-0-Loon, three-dimensional pictures, the "everlasting match" (TIME, Oct. 13). Last winter he quit his $150,00b-a-year job as executive vice president of Universal-International Pictures to make side bets his life work. One of them turned out to be a new main chance: the Indonesian Republican government heeded $80,000 fast, and Matty Fox thought he could arrange it. He did. Then...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FOREIGN TRADE: We Like Matty | 7/19/1948 | See Source »

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