Word: winterful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Schmoe told you that somebody positively isn't an anti-semite because this somebody just said that "some of his best friends are Jews," you would probably think Joe was kidding. That happened to me last winter, only it wasn't Joe Schmoe, it was the president of the Free Enterprise Society, and he wasn't kidding. In other words, he meant it. That is to say, the fact that someone pronounced this anti-semite cliche of cliches was proof positive, to the President, that the chap was not an anti-semite. Or, to put it differently, the President...
...simple that it was hard to believe. So when the Free Enterprise Society had an open meeting last week to recruit new members, I went over to hear its officers talk and see if maybe the President's remarks last winter had been brought on, like lots of other comas, by overwork and cold weather. My quest was not in vain. Towards the end of the meeting, the new President, having warmed up with a lot of purely preliminary inanities, cleared his throat and revealed to the assembled multitude that "government is here to stay, to some extent," which...
...Winter's coming and we won't have it said that we refused to stand by our Braves," said one Cabot Hall volunteer in answer to the offer made to the Indians by Smith's Gardner Hall. The girls there had announced their project Tuesday in the form of a congratulatory telegram which guaranteed "socks for all" if the Indians would send their sizes...
...Club officials wish to emphasize that the organization membership is limited to 70 men, and urge that unless they join now, some people will find the rolls closed by winter...
Even so, CAB may find it difficult to take away National's franchise. Baker could make a good case that CAB was being unnecessarily harsh. The grounding of the DC-6s had laid up his four newest planes last winter, and, until recently, when its air mail subsidies were upped, National had received the lowest (2½? a mile) rates in the industry. Baker has already enlisted the help of the governor of Florida, and the Miami Chamber of Commerce will fight CAB's proposal at the hearing Dec. 1. Even the strikers were worried at the prospect...