Word: winterful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Winter sports enthusiasts cannot coast down a street on a sled without the mayor's permission, and even pedestrians are restricted. "No person," says one law, "shall remain for a longer time than 20 minutes upon a sidewalk in such a manner as to obstruct the free passage of foot travelers," and anyone who is still lottering five minutes after being told to leave by a policeman, is liable for arrest...
Across the abundant Midwest, the sun was bright and warm. Cool winds blew across the prairies. Winter wheat showed emerald in the rolling fields. On thousands of U.S. farms, plows and disc harrows turned back the black earth for next month's corn planting...
...breezed or galloped. Some said he was wind-broken. Actually, the weird, snoring noises were a hangover from a throat ailment that once caused him to keel over during a workout, and that kept him from racing as a two-year-old. Now, the noises were gone. Last winter at Hialeah Park, when he ran his first race, Coaltown won with ridiculous ease. Next time out, Coaltown equaled Hialeah Park's six-furlong track record with a breathtaking 1:09 3/5. The question was: could he go the grueling (1¼ mile) Derby distance...
Just how good is Coaltown? Bookmakers had already made him No. 2 in the Kentucky Derby winter book. Said Trainer Ben Jones, casually: "A nice colt, but he hasn't had the experience. Citation is the greatest horse in the country." No man to hedge his bets, Ben also trains Citation, the even-money favorite to win Kentucky's greatest horse race...
...winter, 31-year-old Claude Harmon taught rich men how to play golf at Palm Beach's swank Seminole Club. Last week, he began to think about moving his wife and three kids up to Mamaroneck, N.Y. (where he has a summertime job as pro at Winged Foot). But first, Claude Harmon wanted to take a vacation. He went up to Augusta, Ga., to swap a few tall stories and play golf...