Word: winterful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...most bitter winter the West had known since 1889, still remembered as the winter of the Great White Ruin. Since January's great blizzard (TIME, Jan. 17), one swirling snowstorm had followed another; Wyoming, Nebraska and South Dakota had been hit by 18 in 27 days. There had been incessant cold-temperatures had fallen as low as 40° below zero. Howling winds piled the snow in endless dunes. On the range, feed was buried deep; springs, watering troughs and streams were frozen; ranch houses were isolated, thousands of miles of roads were lost in drifts. Snow even covered...
Rolling his rs, the Rev. Peter Marshall, Scottish-born chaplain of the U.S. Senate, thus prayed one day last winter over the bowed heads of his legislative flock. That day the Senate was hemming & hawing over the European Recovery Program; husky, sandy-haired Dr. Marshall liked to make his prayers timely...
...Army's first winter maneuvers in Europe since V-E day had shown some pretty sloppy intelligence work. Lieut. General Clarence Huebner told his troops a little story to point the moral, and thereby added another footnote to the history of World...
Groundhog Day is a strictly American slant on the 1457-year-old celebration of Candlemas. A feature-hungry press has perpetuated the colonial fantasy that groundhogs emerge from their winter repose on February 2 to observe the coming of spring...
According to tradition, if they soe their shadows, they beat a hasty retreat to their burrows for six more weeks of winter. If the day is cloudy, however, they allegedly remain above ground, confident of continuing mild weather...