Word: winterful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When safely out of earshot of Russia's secret police, Russia's patient, long-suffering peasants fitted new words to an ancient singsong tune: If there were no winter...
...princess and her sister Fatmeh were in the U.S. merely to study the Red Cross and other welfare bodies, but Washington had political motives for being nice. Soviet Russia, quiescent since last winter, was rumbling again on Persia's northern border. Persia might need help...
Things have been humming ever since. Last winter, Serkin and his father-in-law, Violinist Adolf Busch, gave a benefit concert in nearby Brattleboro and raised $3,800 to start the money-raising ball rolling. All summer, carpenters and masons have pounded nails and poured concrete to convert the colonial farmhouses for college use. For weeks an advance party of prospective Marlboro students has been working too. That is part of the Hendricks idea: at Marlboro, city-bred students will learn to use their hands: raise pigs, tap maple trees, make their own skis...
Most Clevelanders have never heard of Clevelander Harry William Hosford. Many a Cleveland financial man who can boast about knowing the big boys has never seen him. A few knew him as the country's biggest individual speculator in Government securities. In the winter of 1942-43 alone he bought upwards of $28 million worth of Government bonds...
Last spring, right after the winter's competition had ended, Ulen took Norris aside--in the much the same way he had taken Franny Powers aside in 1941 just before Powers went on to win the national intercollegiate 220 title. Ulen worked on Norris until the term ended and then let his protege taper off over the summer...