Word: winterful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...most Berliners. It proved once more that the West was in Berlin to stay. Announcing that the airlift would be stepped up once more, the U.S. commander, Brigadier General Frank Howley, declared last Sunday: "Tomorrow is the first day of spring. Neither the Soviet blockade at the Elbe nor winter's ice or snow have kept food, medical aid and coal from coming into the city. Attempts to scare the population have failed ... It must be clear even to the densest and most ill-willed Communists that their tactics are not succeeding...
Plan S. Last winter, Luigi Gedda called on Catholic Action's comitati civici (citizens' committees) for a major effort. He named it Plan S (for syndicalism). He wanted to build up the Free Federation of Italian Labor, to rival the Red-run Italian Confederation of Labor (C.G.I.L.) through which the Communists have kept an iron grip on four million of Italy's workers. Gedda's goal was to enlist two million members for the Free Federation...
...other things were unsure in the winter of 1948-49, but most U.S. basketball fans thought they knew one thing for a fact: the two best teams in the country were Kentucky and St. Louis. Their meeting in the finals of the National Invitation Tournament in Madison Square Garden was to be the big climax of the season. Last week the big moment came, but neither Kentucky nor St. Louis was there to meet it. In the biggest double upset of the season they had been knocked out of the championship class...
Later, Ross lamely explained that he feared photos "pinpointing" the President's hideaway might endanger his security, and that they "constitute an invasion of his privacy." But newsmen pointed to a Chamber of Commerce map identifying the Winter White House's location...
Shears & Shorts. When the newsreels came back, Truman aides trimmed out 21 feet (showing the Winter White House and a nearby naval installation), and Ross's face was saved, technically at least. They released all the informal beach scenes that Ross had wanted to suppress. Later the President did his best to bail out Ross. Jokingly, he told newsmen that "the Boss" (Mrs. Truman) had warned him: "Don't you have any pictures taken of you in a bathing suit. One slipped by at Bermuda [in 1946] and it's been a disgrace to the family ever...