Word: winterful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...expected from the dollar countries-the U.S., Canada, Argentina-because crop recovery in the soft-money countries has been slower than expected, 3) frosts, snow and floods have heavily cut Britain's home food supply (a quarter of all the sheep and lambs in the country died this winter...
Damn good to be done with it, he thought. No more special orders from the Hygiene Department, and no more 9 o'clocks in the winter; never again a survey course with too much reading, or the 12:15 line in the dining hall; no more "advisers" or machine-like minor deans; no more. And the whole world waiting before...
...when the commander-in-chief realized that the siege of Boston would last all winter, he sent for his spouse, who arrived from Virginia in a red and white liveried chaise. She was all for plenty of social life, but he didn't think it was the right kind of time, and only conceded a Twelfth Night Party on their wedding anniversary...
...hero. His name is Douglas Charles Abbott, Minister of Finance. In his maiden budget speech last week, Abbott endeared the party to more than, 2,000,000 income-tax payers with a cut averaging 29%. At the same time he jumped into favorite's place in winter-book betting as a successor to William Lyon Mackenzie King...
...best when ignoring the copybook: holding one shoulder lower than the other, hugging the rear of the batter's box, crouching forward with a ready-to-pounce stance, putting a lot of body wiggle behind his swing. Musial himself blamed his slump on too much golf during the winter and spring; he put his golf clubs into the closet. A slim, conscientious player, who at 26 earns about $27,000 a year, Musial spent hours in the batting cage...