Word: winterful
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...direction from the center of town will put you in the fields and woods of Sumter County. So I prowled for hours on the nearly empty roads-bare flats of resting purple earth; gentle folded hills on which naked hardwoods are swallowed in tall pines black in winter green; slow wheeling buzzards, hawks stalled above like statues of hawks, long crepe ribbons of starlings drifting south. The fact that crucial landmarks from the formative years of a man of present immense world power are spaced round at intervals with no signposts may come to seem trivial in the uninsistent grandeur...
...welcome in Marrakesh, winter capital of King Hassan II, was noticeably less effusive. Hassan, fearful of provoking dissidents at home and angering radical Arab neighbors by consorting with a pariah, had reluctantly invited the Shah to visit him for a day or two of "conferences." The press was barred from covering the royal arrival, and the Shah was whisked off to a palatial but isolated guest house called Jinan al-Kabir (the big garden), hidden by orange, olive and date trees in the immense palm grove that surrounds Marrakesh. Moroccan officials were dismayed when the Shah arranged for his four...
...Penn has since dropped its hockey program, and, unfortunately, the Lost Weekend has been replaced by Harvard's Lost Winter...
...some, February is a month to pick new courses and wait out the winter. For others, it is the most important month of the year because February is Carnival month in northern New England. That means that a lot of students at the traditional powerhouses such as Dartmouth, Middlebury and Vermont will have a chance to justify their acceptances to the admissions committees...
With a respectable 3-4 record coming into the second half of the winter schedule, the Crimson matmen have reason for optimism, especially after the early-season heroics of freshman sensation Paul Wiederman...