Word: winterful
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Barnaby is still experimenting with his doubles personnel. This afternoon he will probably try Ager and Bullard, Ames and Hughes, and Robb and Dave Key. Key captained the varsity hockey team during the winter and recently joined the tennis squad...
...winter, the Cominform countries had tightened the screws of their economic blockade. The Tito press last week indignantly reported the basis on which the Russian satellite nations were prepared to do business with Tito's country. For one tractor, Poland or Czechoslovakia asked 377 tons of bauxite; for one truck engine, 60,000 tons of maize; for one motorcycle, 180 tons of raw gypsum...
...endlessly over the roads of France, without so much as seeing an enemy to fire at. He returned to Calais to look with the eyes of defeat on the victors, big strapping Germans who manned the great guns that hurled shells across the English Channel into Dover. In the winter of 1942, he decided to join the conquerors. German Waffen SS sent him south to Paris to report for duty...
...tunghsi, or curio salesmen, find business rough. Their bronzes, brasswork and jade figurines bring only a quarter of the price they commanded last winter. One tunghsi man reminisces mournfully: "The mandarin coats-ah! We used to sell them for $20 apiece. When we ran out of real ones we went to the undertakers and bought up their supply of secondhand burial clothes. The burial clothes were even more ornate, and the Americans were twice as happy...
Died. Ezra Winter, 63, mural painter, best known for his The Fountain of Youth, one of the world's largest (60 by 40 ft.) murals, which decorates the grand foyer of Radio City Music Hall; by his own hand (double-barreled shotgun); in South Canaan, Conn...