Word: winterful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When Communist-liner Lee Pressman was booted out of his job as the C.I.O.'s general counsel last winter, it was with the friendly understanding that he would still be called on for odd chores as a private lawyer. Thus bolstered, Lawyer Pressman moved to New York, bought a $30,000 house in suburban Mt. Vernon and started running for Congress as an American Labor Party candidate from Brooklyn. He spent his spare time helping mastermind Henry Wallace's campaign for the presidency. But last week he presented a bill for his first legal assignment from the C.I.O...
Generalissimo Winter. "Even Hitler didn't get crowds like this," I heard a grey little man in shirtsleeves murmur to his friend. Indeed, it was a crowd worthy of this highest German superlative. The 300,000 blanketed the whole rubble-strewn area before the Reichstag, choked every path through the Tiergarten, stood in neat, tight ranks between rows of planted cabbages in the little garden plots. A hot sun beat on the crowd; the air was heavy with sweat and whirls of dust from the sandy earth and the odor of cheap tobacco. A seven-year-old girl whimpered...
With the first frosty air of fall, most of radio's summer replacements had withered on the. network vines. Those hardy perennials, the big winter shows, were abloom again. Indications were that the jokes, the routines and the voices would be much the same as last season. But there would be some minor changes...
...many farmers were planning to increase hog feeding and buy cattle to fatten on corn. But the Bureau of Agricultural Economics did not think this would add to the meat supply-and bring prices down-until late 1949. In fact, said the bureau, meat would be even scarcer this winter, and prices might go even higher...
...long winter nights in the old days, the people of the Hebrides would gather about their fires to listen to a Gaelic sgeulachlan (storytelling). Now the 1,000-year-old stories have been mostly forgotten, and there is little sgeulachlan in the Hebrides. One man who has not forgotten is Angus MacMillan...