Word: winterful
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Last winter Koch's own surveys showed that only 7% of the public had a firm idea of who he was. Cuomo's "hard recognition factor" was a bare 2%. Both overcame obscurity through heavy spending on TV; Cuomo invested $600,000 on commercials, while Koch laid out $500,000-far more than their adversaries...
...that the next round of settlements will fall in the 15% to 17% range-far higher than the 10% sought by Callaghan and Healey. Observed Clive Jenkins, general secretary of the white-collar Association of Scientific, Technical and Managerial Staffs: "I think it's going to be a winter of deep discontent...
...Ovid noted, once he got his mind off sex, autumn is "cum formossisimus annus"-"the fairest season of the year." Had he lived a little later, Horace might have found out from the U.S. Census Bureau that the death rate is usually lower in autumn than in winter and spring. Why? Science doesn't know, but it is quite possible that the will to live is stronger in the fall. Conversely, the will to mayhem weakens: nobody has ever worried about a Long Hot Autumn...
...into New England (even though Columnist Russell Baker has reminded them that "if you've seen 1 billion leaves, you've seen them all"). What is not widely recognized is that autumn is richly enhanced simply by what it is not. Specifically, it is not summer, winter or spring...
...just going to pray that we won't get a big snowstorm this winter," George Teso, director of Traffic and Parking, said yesterday, adding that city police have only 40 per cent of the normal towing fleet available because of the city's decision to end its contract with Ellery...