Word: winterful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...week's end came failure. With the roar of a great explosion, the flood burst the dike, billowed over about 25,000 acres, destroying much of the area's winter wheat. A big stored crop of potatoes was lost. That was not the worst of it: the Fenlands' farmers feared that it might take two years to pump out the lowlands and restore them to productivity...
...gypsy) horsemen and their broken-down nags. Hibernating in the stalls there, the gyps nail up blankets and newspapers to keep out the cold. The swank comforts of Hialeah and Santa Anita are not for them. But this year, for the first time, the gyps went south for the winter. A race track, refurbished lor them, opened in the pine woods 16 miles from Tampa. Even its name was magic to shivering gyps: Sunshine Park...
Track Slow. All was not sunny at Sunshine Park. On opening day a handful of customers showed up. It soon became a financial rarity: a track that was losing money. And Florida's cloudy weather this cold winter did not help. Yet except for a few gyps who "hopped" their horses, the racing was about as honest as it is anywhere-and like the big tracks, under state supervision...
Fulham's new bishop expects to have his hands full replacing aging chaplains and refurbishing war-blasted churches. But "I think it's a very nice job," said he last week. "After all-would you mind going to St. Moritz next winter...
After three years of strictly winter-rules wartime turf-cutting, the golf train is once more feeing up on a formal basis, under the guidance of Coach Bill Barclay, who just completed the first phase of his first year at Harvard as basketball mentor...