Word: winterful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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There was momentary confusion; Malik's letter was written in Russian. Aides found a translator. Finally, Jessup got on the telephone. He passed the word to Cadogan and Chauvel that Malik had agreed to meet with them. The first meeting of Four Power spokesmen since last winter's fruitless discussions in Geneva on the subject of the Berlin blockade was set for 12:30 the next...
...industry, thrown 125,000 out of work. There had been only four hours of electricity a day; Berliners had lighted their homes with candles or gone to bed at sunset. The siege's end meant not only more food, more jobs and more light, but a relatively comfortable winter ahead...
...cabled this week, "are marked by the East-West conflict of the past eleven months. In past springs, stately chestnut and linden trees had spread a canopy of pink and white over the ruins. This year, street after street in Berlin is bare of trees. In the long hard winter of the blockade, Berlin's people had to decide whether to accept Soviet Russia's offer of coal or cut down their trees. They chose to give up the trees. At first it was only one tree to a block; before the Russians backed down last week hundreds...
Into Athens' Constitution Square rumbled a bus full of wounded Greek soldiers. They waved their crutches jauntily, sang hearty peasant songs and enjoyed the warm spring weather. After a hard winter, the city's heavy-scented orange blossoms were out at last. And in their rugged mountains, the stubborn Communist guerrillas at last seemed to be weakening...
...reason for the club's success was the inspired playing of a graceful, young (24) rookie second baseman named Jerry Coleman. An ex-Marine pilot who flew 57 strikes in the South Pacific, modest Jerry Coleman hit a modest .251 with Newark last year. During the winter to build himself up, he swung an overweighted bat in the cellar of his San Francisco home, faithfully executed 25 pushups morning & night. At week's end, Coleman had hit safely in seven consecutive games, had a fat .400 average. That was not as good as Rookie Johnny Groth...