Word: winterful
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Time: Winter Twilight...
Mather House residents, upset over the removal of their hot breakfast, grew decidedly testy at the removal of all heat from their dining hall. During the peak of last winter, the students--many of whom had grown accustomed to wearing coats to meals--lobbied to have a thermometer placed in the hall. Buildings and Grounds officials were properly mollified to learn that the dining hall was heated to a less-than-balmy 60 degrees, and then did nothing...
...year, ETS introduced substantial changes in the LSATs. As a result, about three times as many law school applicants as in the past received perfect 800 scores, while about twice as many scored in the 750 range. ETS neglected to mention the changes to law schools until this past winter, when a number of law schools jointly asked ETS about the unusually high scores. As a result, some law schools accepted students based on the erroneous assumption that the post-July tests were no different than earlier LSATs...
Through the long, cold fall and winter, Ed drove the New Jersey highways, littering them, on Soviet instructions, with orange juice, milk and peanut crunch containers into which he had crammed documents for Jim. In return, as promised, the money flowed freely. All the while the FBI screened his giveaway secrets -and kept the cash he received...
...this week, will be a "disaster," warns Barry Bosworth, director of the Council on Wage and Price Stability (COWPS). May's figures will not look much better, he adds, and prices will not start to level out until June at the earliest. Partly because of last winter's blizzards, food prices climbed 16.4% in the first quarter. Beef has jumped at an annual rate of 41 % since January, and wholesale prices are spurting, meaning that retail prices will continue to rise...