Word: winterful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...digging 400,000 tons of coal a day, about 18% of the nation's normal output. Coal stocks above ground were enough to keep the country running normally for about two months; with steel shut down, the supply would last far longer than that. The miners themselves, with winter to face and grocery bills to pay, were restless...
Labor strategists would almost certainly not schedule it for the depths of winter, because it is hard to get out the workingman's full vote in cold weather. The Labor Party machinery was not tuned up for an election before spring. The shrewdest observers, sure that Attlee and Morrison did not want a fall election, predicted a date around May i. But Nye Bevan was reported to be insisting on a "snap" autumn election. If that was really what he wanted, he might get it, for in the drab ranks of Labor statesmen he was the nearest thing...
...library, the Wellesley girl has added T. S. Eliot, Sartre and Freud. In her closet she keeps a suit of red winter underwear, three "dressy" dresses and at least one evening gown. For the sake of her prestige, she must never let a week go by without at least one date (freshmen get only 15 "1 o'clocks and overnights" the first semester). Those without weekend dates often prefer to leave campus, for "the awfulness of not having a date when everyone else does," says Dean Lucy Wilson, "hangs over them constantly...
With its first big job finished, the Society last night announced plans to continue its public service whenever the need arose. "Our big job in the winter will be to clear snow from Plympton Street and other congested reads," Mason said. He also hinted at plans to rent a rowboat and ferry pedestrians from Cambridge to Boston near the site of the closed Harvard Bridge...
...This winter, the Seminar is holding an eight-month studies program. Each month will be devoted to one aspect of American culture. Groups of 50 students will attend the sessions, conducted by American teachers...