Word: winterful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Norris, a member of the Varsity swimming team for the past two years, defeated three-time winner Steve Wosniak, former Michigan all-American John McCarthy, and entries from Yale and Princeton. Trueblee Habeler, the Tiger competitor, won the 440 yard free style in the Harvard-Princeton meet last winter...
Down the steep cobbled streets of La Paz, coca-chewing Indians trotted under huge packs of bundled alpaca hides. In the market sun, Indian women in outlandish derby hats and bright-colored skirts haggled over little piles of shelled corn. It was winter, the good time in the Andes. The Indians (who comprise two-thirds of all Bolivians) were not even aware that political storms threatened the peace...
...offer. Confident that they would accept, he prepared to fly west again. With him he had a pair of right-hand men: George Nelson, advertising director of the late Philadelphia Record, and George Chaplin, managing editor of the Camden Courier and Post until Stern Sr. sold them last winter. In his pocket, Tommy Stern had a ringing, first-day editorial. Then, a few hours before plane time, he got the bad news in a terse wire: the Star had already been sold...
...Last winter, sure that the time had come to open up a school, he started converting a country club he bought four years ago at Shawnee, Del. into a schoolhouse. The protests of his neighbors at the flossy resort were drowned in a noisy rush of students ready to pay $85 for a week of Waring's lessons. What the students got was a Waring extravaganza...
...aside 5% of production for the armed forces, the estimated amount necessary to meet minimum needs. The oil will be taken out of the already tight civilian supply (5,100,000 bbls. daily against a demand of 5,700,000). To civilian users this meant that the anticipated winter shortage of fuel oil, and other fuels, would be that much worse. But the armed forces would not be operating on starvation rations...