Word: winterful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Untimely. In Brooklyn, veteran Pickpocket Samuel Hemphill complained bitterly over his arrest "just at the beginning of the season," explained: "You can't make a cent all winter; people are so bundled up with coats you can't get to them...
...Berlin's brain and conscience, to destroy the value Berliners put on their lives, their homes, and their city. Terror has allies. Lesser and more ordinary suffering has corroded untold values. In countless brains and consciences, all political debate is held worthless. A typical newspaper cartoon this past winter showed a child pointing to a pile of cut timber: "Is that wood for our fireplaces, Daddy?" "No, son, it is for conference tables...
...Last winter, the administration notified Ullman that his appointment in the department of Geology and Geography would terminate in 1949. The action was followed by the elimination of Geography as a field of concentration...
...guns with which Figueres' men fought to victory had been stacked last summer on a finca outside Havana for use against Trujillo. At the last minute the Cuban army authorities seized the guns, and the exped tion flopped. "We waited too long," the exiles say now. Last winter Guatemalan planes began taking loads of flowers to Havana. They flew back by night, carrying heavier cargo. Cases of guns were quietly stowed away in Guatemalan warehouses. Then, when Figueres rebelled in Costa Rica, the guns were flown to his mountain forces. They helped...
Last week, he pasted a neat miniature of Molotov in his album: "Cannonball head . . . comprehending eyes . . . slab face ... a man of outstanding ability and cold-blooded ruthlessness ... I have never seen a human being who more perfectly represented the modern conception of a robot . . . His smile of Siberian winter, his carefully-measured and often wise words, his affable demeanor, combined to make him the perfect agent of Soviet policy in a deadly world . . . Havoc and ruin had been around him all his days . . . How glad I am at the end of my life not to have had to endure...