Word: winterful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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From the U.S.S.R., a year ago, came icy blasts that plunged all Europe into the misery of one of the worst winters it had known in years. This time the story was different. All winter long, while arctic gusts set the U.S. ashivering, strong west winds from the warm Atlantic bathed Europe in welcome balm. In France, where the weather was milder than it had been since 1921, the winter wheat last week was already standing six inches high. Parisian office workers were flocking to eat their lunches in sun-warmed parks, and tulip shoots stood two inches up from...
...Belgium, peasants whose barns were dangerously bare of fodder because of last summer's drought gratefully set their cattle to pasture in fields that had stayed green all winter long. Dutch bargemen poled happily along canals that were free of January ice for the first time since 1900. With the canals absorbing some 60% of the country's freight traffic, hard-pressed Dutch railroads were breathing easy. In Italy, where the fragrant mimosa had flowered in December, thanks to the mildest winter of the century, cattle and sheep were grazing hoof-deep in verdant pastureland while farmers sent...
Even the Soviet Union, with its spring grain being sowed earlier than at any time since the Revolution, was now able to send the satellites of Eastern Europe something better than propaganda. Everywhere the winter wheat was ripening. Europe's prospects, plus the likelihood of bumper crops in Argentina and Australia, were already discernible in the break in the U.S. grain market (see BUSINESS). Europe's industry was benefiting in healthier, happier workers. With less coal going into family stoves, there was more for factory furnaces. In the Ruhr, absenteeism was down to three-fifths of last year...
...squads have almost identical records, both against nationwide competition and in the Ivy League. Each has won only five times in all this winter, but against league opponents the Crimson's one up two down scorecard is just enough to squeeze it ahead of the Quakers, who have compiled a two-five tabulation...
...Boston weather bureau last night issued these winter sports conditions and forecasts...