Word: winterful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...automobile clubs reported other gripes: angled windshields gave more vision in many directions, but they also admitted more glare. Short drivers had difficulty in seeing over the hood. Slanting rear windows looked pretty but they collected snow in winter. Almost all the new cars were bigger or more powerful than their earlier prototypes; they rode easier, had a faster pickup and greater speed. Compared to prewar models they looked like custom-built guided missiles. What was worrying their owners was the job of keeping them that...
...their prospectus, the editors of the new magazine declared that they were taking on "the greatest journalistic assignment in history"-to mirror industrial civilization in ink and paper. They could hardly have picked a worse time. In the stormy winter of 1930 nobody could guarantee that either the civilization or the fledgling FORTUNE would long survive...
...worked night & day, in winter sometimes making her rounds by sled or snowshoe. For the last quarter of a century she has been practicing in Eugene...
There are other strange beasts in the sea, says Ley, that zoologists do not recognize. For example, there is a turtle-like creature, much bigger than known sea turtles, called a niuhi in Easter Island and a moha-moha in Queensland. It may range all over. Last winter, says Ley, a large unknown animal tried to climb a sea wall in Florida, leaving great moha-moha like tracks in the sand...
...where air traffic was still rising, the planes were getting stiff competition from luxury liners. Many ships were already booked full for next summer while plane reservations lagged. To get the business back, American Overseas Airlines, Pan American Airways and T.W.A. cut their transatlantic round-trip rates for the winter to about 1⅓ the price of a single summer fare. Sample Pan Am rate: New York to London, $466.60, down from...