Word: winterful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Peach trees and flowering shrubs bloomed across Oklahoma last week. Out on the panhandle, Bermuda grass was turning from winter-brown to green. Beef cattle moved on to the fattening ranges of the Osage. In California, sunbathers headed for the long Pacific beaches. In Manhattan, city hicks swarmed into Madison Square Garden for the circus...
...Varsity Club is that Kenary will bounce back from the operation he underwent Monday night at Peter Bent Brigham and be ready to go come next fall. "It's easy to get soft and fat after an operation like that," one player commented. "Why just during the winter layoff Jimmy went from 185 to 198 pounds. But he plays baseball out in Worcester during the summer. That'll probably get him back into shape...
FARMERS EVERYWHERE, busy with spring chores, were giving thanks for the mild winter. Even the blast of snow and freezing weather that had hit Britain in mid-February had been rather welcome. Said a toothless Suffolk fanner: "The crops were coming up too fast. The snow put 'em to sleep. Now, unless a May frost comes along to stab us in the back, there'll be a bumper." Sheep Raiser Ben Alderson of Kerry, Montgomeryshire, had a bumper already; one of his ewes had just produced five lambs, a circumstance considered remarkable enough to be recorded...
While their leader secluded himself in cold, lonely Kuling last winter, the Chinese people knew only that he was meditating on China's fate. Last week, China and the world learned of the decision Chiang had reached. In an effort to lead China farther along the road to democracy, Chiang Kai-shek would relinquish the presidency of his country...
...Spivak go 220 Yards under full sail? That will be one of the big questions which may be answered tomorrow. He did well indoors this winter and like the rest of the current crop of dashmen, he has been loafing through 23-second 220's this week...