Word: winterful
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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However, if you think I'm going to spend my week off moping under a sun lamp, dreaming of waves crashing upon white sand and bats cracking against baseballs in Winter Haven, Lakeland and Ft. Lauderdale, you've lost your marbles. And if you think I'm going to spend the week in Lamont, Cabot or Widener, dreaming about Kant, messenger RNA or the Protestant Reformation, or if you have such plans, you never had any marbles to begin with...
Finch's election in 1975 was a signal that the long era of irrationality in Mississippi gubernatorial races was not yet at an end. In that race he defeated William Winter in the Democratic primary and Gil Carmichael in the general election. Both opponents are among the most intelligent, articulate and truly progressive leaders the state had to offer...
...Winter had stood for moderation on the race issue in the '50s and '60s, when it was unpopular and even dangerous to do so. He had opposed the conservative oligarchy in the state house since his election in the '40s, and had been instrumental in the passage of the state's first workman's compensation bill...
...courageous undertaking if one considers that he did it without Nixon's support and that Eastland was one of the most powerfully established political figures in the state. In the 1975 race, Carmichael outlined rational and workable plans for improving the state. While he was doing this and Winter was voluntarily disclosing income tax returns, Finch was bagging groceries, refusing open press conferences and debates, and criticizing Winter for not disclosing more, even though he had himself disclosed nothing...
...Harvard comrades, it's that excruciating time of year again when the winter sports teams are finished with their respective seasons and the spring sports teams are thawing out in their sweatsuits at Briggs Cage...