Word: winterful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Wide Plains. At week's end, footslogging Nationalist reinforcements reached Kaifeng. They found the city neatly sacked. Chen Yi's men, loaded down with stores of gasoline, munitions and newly harvested winter wheat, had slipped away to the south...
...country, known Loyalists who lived throughout the war alongside patriotic heroes, only visited and warned if they became too outspoken or charged too high prices. Some of the same people attended American dances, after the recapture of Philadelphia, as had danced with the British officers during the winter of Valley Forge...
...somewhat shaken, however, by paragraphs like the following one, in which the writer left the facts for her to fill in: "In a single day New York uses KOMING gallons of water, imports KOMING tons of food, spews out KOMING gallons of sewage and KOMING tons of garbage. In winter it needs KOMING gallons of fuel oil. KOMING million people travel daily on its KOMING miles of subway...
Ever since, ornithologists have wondered where the bristle-thighed curlew really lives and does its reproducing. It winters in the South Seas, as many New Yorkers winter in Florida, but it does not make its nest there. In 1869, a bristle-thighed curlew was spotted on the Alaska coast. But no nest was found. Apparently the curlews, having flown over 5,000 miles from Tahiti, penetrated still farther into Alaska to raise their families...
Across the rolling lands of Texas and Oklahoma, sweating harvesters drove their clanking combines in echelon, cutting wide swaths through the endless fields of golden wheat. As the winter wheat harvest hit its full stride last week, farmers were hard put to find a place for their bumper crop. In such railroad centers as Burkburnett, Tex., every available elevator was full to overflowing; shippers, caught by the shortage of railroad cars, were forced to dump the harvested grain in piles along the streets...