Word: winterful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...which he returned was celebrating the Jazz Age; and drinking bootleg gin. Chambers' brother Richard, to whom he was deeply attached, committed suicide. He visited Richard's grave one winter day and found it covered with ice. He wrote: "The cold earth holds him round, a sheet of ice is over his face. My brother has no more the cold rain to face...
After weeks of heavy fog, the winter sun broke through last week and shone brightly on Berlin. The sound of the airlift planes, which had dwindled to a whisper, swelled to a cheering roar. Not since the blockade began had the morale of West Berlin been so high...
...railroad station at Pukow, just across the Yangtze from Nanking, was choked with people. Soldiers, bulky in padded winter khaki, bivouacked on the concrete platforms. Their rice cooked in big iron pots over wood fires. Grimy refugees hovered nearby with begging bowls. Petty traders, going uprailway to barter cloth and matches for sesame oil and tobacco, swarmed with their bundles on the rooftops of overpacked third class coaches, on couplings, on the coal tender, on the catwalk around the locomotive boiler...
Among the chief delights "of the ride, he found, are the things one sees on the way: "The tint and character of a leaf, the dreamy, purple shades of mountains, the exquisite lacery of winter branches, the dim, pale silhouettes of far horizons. And I had lived for over 40 years without ever noticing any of them except in a general way, as one might look at a crowd and say, 'What a lot of people...
...unlikely that the varsity will run into this kind of shooting tonight, although Trinity walloped MIT by 30 points in its only start this winter...