Word: winterful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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After a long period of winter hibernation, John L. Lewis issued forth to make a proud pronouncement: in 20 months the United Mine Workers' Welfare and Retirement Fund (now fed by a 20? rake-off on every ton of coal mined) had paid out $68 million. Among other things, the fund had put 11,689 retired miners on $100-a-month pensions...
...antics (best known routine: his characterization of Professor Pierre Ginsberg, a French language teacher); of a liver ailment; in Manhattan. The son of a cantor, Vaudevillian Howard made his debut at twelve as a boy soprano, scored his big hits teamed with older brother Eugene in the Shuberts' Winter Garden revues and George White's Scandals...
...suddenly went on a scoring binge, tallied five times and dumped Northeastern 9 to 5 in the feature attraction at the Arena Wednesday night. The hardy few who snubbed the impending exams to attend were treated to the sixty most violent minutes of hockey seen on Arena ice this winter...
...Eighty-year-old Scott Pillsbury took advantage of mild weather at Scarborough, Me., hurried to a public cemetery to dig his grave before the ground froze. He explained that he expected to die soon, and disapproved of the local custom of storing bodies through winter months and burying them in the spring...
Although Columbia managed to better by one point its last year's 63 to 12 defeat at the hands of almost the same Crimson team, Saturday's performance bolstered pre-season dope that placed Ulen's team with the best in the East this winter...