Word: winterized
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Mary has long since resigned herself to the fact that while he loves her dearly, Birdie loves baseball more. He has occasionally been caught reading a novel, but even in the dead of winter he is more likely to spend his evenings digesting the Baseball Register, or poring over the rule book. "I don't know whether he's refreshing his memory or looking for loopholes," says Mary. Occasionally she will interrupt him by asking: "Well, dear, what inning...
...Finns in the past 18 years have fought two wars with Russia, both beyond their capacity to win. The first was the Winter War of 1939 when Finland thrilled the world by holding the Red army at bay for 3½ months. The second, and the subject of this impressive novel, took place 15 months later, and found Finland alongside Hitler in his invasion of the Soviet Union. Author Linna, a textile worker who served in that war, writes with a ferocity and explicitness certain to jolt the half-patronizing image of "plucky little Finland" held by many Americans...
...bestseller in Finland. American readers should be impressed by his terse descriptions of infighting, and grateful for the absence of the detailed flashbacks to peacetime life that have become the curse of war novels. There are some stereotypes but also some fresh, vivid portraits: Rokka, the veteran of the Winter War, who will fight his own way or not at all; Honkajoki, the eccentric pedant, who infuriates his officers by carrying a longbow into battle; Lahtinen, the Communist sympathizer, who wins a medal for bravery, yet takes a perverse pleasure in the stubborn resistance put up by the Reds...
When refugees from several Hungarian orchestras poured into Austria last winter, U.S. and Swiss funds helped house them and launch them on new musical careers. The musicians moved into a vacant hotel, and Conductor Rozsnyai set to work trying to whip them into shape. He prescribed six hours of practice a day; corridors echoed with violins being tuned and pianists rippling through arpeggios...
...East Coast's most complete: Port Washington, L.I.'s Riviera, which turns a healthy profit each year by providing 150 boatowners with all the standard summer-cruising services (water, ice, telephone, etc.), will also repair and store their boats during winter months...