Word: winterful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Robin J. Cruikshank, a sharp-eyed British journalist, told Americans this winter (TIME, Jan. 20) how Europe's ears would be cocked. He asked: "Will Uncle Sam decide to take the expansionist way in the world?" What the U.S. offered at Geneva would be the tipoff: "The first speech of the American spokesman . . . will have all the force of an act, a decisive...
...legend) before the Restoration in 1660 and the Plague in 1665, and again just before the revolution of 1688? Woe Water had run again in 1915, just two days before the German submarine campaign started, and in 1938, the year of Munich. The non-superstitious scoffed: an exceptionally wet winter had made the bourne appear. The exceptionally wet winter had also brought on The Crisis...
...year's A-brand was exceptionally virulent; the death rate from flu and its complications was higher than last year's. There were other peculiarities: the epidemic had struck four times as hard in Texas (81,860 cases) as anywhere else, had followed a comparatively flu-less winter (the season's total-239,637 cases-was less than half that in the 1945-46 epidemic...
...headlines he made in Hollywood last winter, when he saw the one woman for him, were the worst yet. The fact that she also happened to be his host's wife caused him no hesitation. He wooed & wedded the girl despite the continuing objections of a California court. Sweet-faced Laraine Day was only 26, a girl of strict Mormon upbringing who neither drinks, smokes nor swears. The Leo & Laraine Page One stories did neither Durocher nor baseball any good. The Catholic Youth Organization of Brooklyn (50,000 members) is boycotting the Dodgers so long as Durocher runs them...
Hauptfuhrer, second-string end last fall and captain-elect of the 1947-48 basketball team, will use the springy legs that netted him so many tap-ins during the winter season to snag points for the Crimson in the high jump...