Word: winterful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...adjudge you guilty of willful and deliberate contempt," Judge Harold R. Medina said. "You are to be remanded . . . for a period not to exceed thirty days." Grinning broadly, Witness Carl Winter stepped down from the stand, the fifth Communist to be jailed for contempt in the eight-month conspiracy trial of eleven of the nation's top Reds. Outside the courthouse in Manhattan's Foley Square, Communist pickets dutifully picked up the new refrain: "Free Carl Winter. Stop this frame-up." Within minutes, placards appeared, with Winter's name neatly lettered...
Justice over Ice. Last winter a white trapper who heard the story reported it to Mounties at Cambridge Bay. By plane and dog sled, two policemen went up to investigate. They found the guileless Eskimos-including Eeriykoot and Ishakak -perfectly willing to talk. The police arrested the two friends, exhumed Nukashook's body for an inquest...
...Henri Philippe Pétain, wife of the old Marshal of Verdun and Vichy, now sharing his exile on the Ile d'Yeu, brushed aside rumors that her 93-year-old husband was so sick that he might not live out the winter. The old warrior still has "no complaints," she reported, but "he is eating his heart out with loneliness. He never sees anyone except me . . . He read the Churchill memoirs, but don't ask me what he said about them. Churchill is a great Englishman-but there, he is an Englishman, and that...
...week was out, he telephoned Business Manager Buzzy Bavasi and asked humbly: "Will you take a damn fool back?" Last spring, at Vero Beach, Fla. Newcombe took a punch at Catcher Fermin Guerra of the Philadelphia A's, with whom he had trouble in the Cuban League last winter. Says Teammate Robinson, referring both to Newcombe's pitching and behavior: "He's smarter...
...hurry, it usually sent out none but hand-picked "Joes." This fast-moving novel, which won the first $15,000 award of the Catholic Society of the Christophers (TIME, April 14, 1947), tells what happened when the army dropped three volunteers behind the German lines in the last winter of fighting...