Word: winterful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...firing continued. Scott won his first skirmish with Republican rebels at the Omaha harmony and hair-pulling meeting last winter, when he got a 54 to 50 "vote of confidence" (TIME, Feb. 7). Since then he had been trying to find a platform that everybody could stand on, while critics thought he should have been out raising money. Congressmen felt that they, not he, should do the thinking about issues. As the wrangling increased, contributions dropped off: in the first five months of this year the committee had raised only $73,630 to meet expenses of $313,673A group...
Known as the "Blue Lupine Queen," Miss Myrick can challenge the "Kudzu Kid" any time. Blue Lupine, incidentally, is a nitrogen-bearing plant used extensively for winter cover crops in the South ... It stops erosion, and adds millions to the income of Georgia farmers...
...guaranteed Gold Cup purse would probably be the last of the big bonanza races this season. With betting off everywhere, the trend was toward lower purses. Last week, Saratoga announced a cut in its minimum purses from $3,000 to $2,500. At Santa Anita, which last winter managed three $100,000 races in a single meeting, horsemen were complaining about giving away so much money in one chunk, instead of spreading it around. Cheap horses, they argued, eat as much hay and oats as stakes winners...
With their new riches, the Trapps "bought a view" in Vermont. A few weeks after they moved in, the old farmhouse came down in a windstorm. They have rebuilt it into a handsome, 20-room Tyrolean manor house. In winter, while the family is on concert tour, the house will be used as a hostelry for skiers...
With touring in winter and running a camp in summer, what time is left for family life? "But this is family life!" Mrs. Trapp exclaims. "Martina paints and Agathe makes greeting cards and Maria does wooden candlesticks and Werner farms and we all sing together-we do things together, and that is real family life. That is what is wrong with everybody. They don't do things; they buy them at the five-&-ten. Everywhere we go, I try to show people how to do things together, in the family, which is the way God meant people to live...