Word: winterful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...week of historic victories for Communism in Asia (see FOREIGN NEWS). He had chosen his Inauguration Day to give the U.S.-and the world-a major restatement of U.S. foreign policy. Reading with careful emphasis from his brown leather loose-leaf notebook, his breath hanging frosty in the winter air, the President made it clear that there would be no softening of the U.S. attitude toward Communist aggression...
...lawyers argued that their clients all fell "within the classes discriminated against": Henry Winston and City Councilman Benjamin Davis were Negroes. The others had been "workers": Irving Potash was a furrier; Robert Thompson, a machinist; Gus Hall, a lumberjack; John Williamson, a patternmaker; Gilbert Green, a metalworker; Carl Winter, a draftsman; Jack Stachel, a capmaker; John Gates, now an editor of the Daily Worker (see PRESS), was a former construction laborer...
...retired to a small guest room. He saw them one by one, if only for a moment, bidding each farewell. After an hour he excused himself and changed into the long blue gown and black jacket traditional of the Chinese gentleman. Outside, it was a clear and unusually warm winter day. As the Gimo stepped into his big, black Cadillac bearing No. 1 on its license plates, the sun was low in the west...
...California's Santa Anita, richest and most prosperous of all, attendance in the first 20 days of the winter season was down 24.4% from last year (partly as a result of bad weather); betting had slumped $10,459,016. Said one horseman last week, casting a cold eye over the thin turnout: "This is more like it. Racing was getting to be a honky-tonk-too many people...
...specific case where a legitimate complaint can be made. In one case the University will bear the responsibility; in another it is Cambridge. Perhaps the easiest villian to overlook is the citizen whose home or commercial establishment fronts on a street in the vicinity of the Square. Essentially, easy winter walking depends upon a good neighbor policy of shoveling sidewalks immediately after a snowfall. In chilly New England a quick job in this respect alone can prevent the formation of an icy coating which will remain until the thaw. But the simple civic act of shoveling itself does not come...