Word: winterful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Andrei Gromyko, who had been holed up on Park Avenue all winter, got a summer place for the last few months of his U.S. stay. Gromyko & family (wife and two children) moved into a 30-room villa on Long Island...
...Harvard's nice in the summer, but Yale is better in the winter," was a representative declaration at the end of last year's eight-week course. Fashion reactions, heretofore, have also been exzemic...
...onlooking Harvard undergraduate, soured by a winter of Radcliffe Jolly-ups, could only remark, "I've never seen so many people at Harvard having a good time." Today the windup, the last round, until ten or 15 or 20 years...
...north. On a scale worked out by Dr. Paul Siple (Eagle Scout of the Byrd 1928 expedition), flesh freezes at a wind chill of 1,400. This may be at 20 above zero, if there is a 20-mile wind, or 40 below with a one-mile wind. Last winter, survivors told Claxton, Churchill's wind chill was greater than 1,400 most of the time, and once...
...Problem of Cold. Ex-Gunner Claxton also inspected artillery pieces which had been fired successfully in Churchill's cold, then stored for the rest of the winter by "cocooning" them with a plastic sprayed over canvas. They had come through in good shape. But artillerymen still have their troubles. Braking spades on gun carriages snap off on the first recoil; in extreme cold some explosives become unstable and are either dangerous to handle or hard to fire. Americans and Canadians, working in parallel experiments, are still trying to figure the best way to keep engine oils fluid...