Word: winterful
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Like many social bastions, the debutante fell into disrepair during the sixties. Recently, however, she has staged a comeback, though not without concessions to the times. Her "season," far from being a winter--long whirl of activities, takes place in the few weeks when everyone is home for Christmas vacation. In year's past, a deb often faced the agonizing choice of making a debut or going to college. Today, individual families rarely present their daughters as in times past. Instead, some type of social organization whith a name like the Bachelor's Club or the Spinster's Circle sponsors...
Primary night brought The Duke, the strongman hero of the winter blizzard, up against the reality of his own spectacular lack of popularity. The mellow man in the crew-neck sweater, the man who had looked so great in February, had come a cropper in November, for the simple fact that he was not a likeable man. Dukakis could not campaign well, and Ed King did. King also had the issue...
They still haven't forgotten the winter of '73 in Alta. There were 45 of us there: high-school kids from Southern California (the Palisades to be specific). Forty-seven, actually, if you count the two chaperones. All together for one week of skiing in Alta the day after Christmas to New Year...
...mean and the wind whipped though your warmups. It was lunch when it happened-you felt it at first, the Snow Pine lodge shook a little and the earth rumbled but there was nothing to see from the window. The earth shook, nothing, mind you, like California shook that winter in the earthquake. But it shook. And the phones started ringing...
...avalanched that winter in Alta and killed two people. The little information booth next door to the Alta Lodge got knocked flat by a mountain of snow and rubble. The Lodge itself was half--buried. There hadn't been an avalanche in Alta for a long time, a serious one for as long, well, as anyone could remember...