Word: winterful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...pressure for dollars rises and Britain's supply of dollars dwindles, how is Britain to feed her people next winter? Recently, Food Minister John Strachey made an optimistic speech pointing out that world crop prospects were good. But the expected food surpluses were in areas where it takes dollars, not pounds...
...because farmers have been scraping away the nation's topsoil for generations. The five-hearted earthworm is coldblooded, cannot survive a sudden freeze. In free-plowed fields, where the earth is laid bare (and in entire areas, like the Corn Belt), earthworms die off in great numbers each winter...
...freezing spell. But in a burlap-covered acre, 995,000 worms survived; 1,610,000 slithered to safety beneath a protective acre of hay. The conservationists recommend a covering of chopped cornstalks or manure, or a quick-growing catch crop, to blanket the worms and tide them through the winter...
This Year's Model. In Edinburgh, Scotland, an official of the College of Art explained why this spring's exhibition offered far fewer nude paintings: last winter's coal shortage discouraged models from posing...
...years ago, at 66, Boomer retired as president, became board chairman. Last winter he relinquished his lordly 37th-floor suite for a time to the deliberating Big Four foreign ministers. This spring he sailed for a summer's holiday in Norway, his wife's old home. There last week the nation's No. 1 innkeeper died of a heart attack, as he sat in the lobby of Hamar's Astoria Hotel...