Word: winterized
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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President Eisenhower's proposal last winter for a nonpartisan monetary commission to study the nation's financial system set Congress forthwith to courting reasons why a congressional committee could do the job and do it better. But even on that score a hitch arose; nobody in Congress could decide which committee qualified...
...Winter Garment of Repentance fling ... --OMAR KHAIYAM...
...Francisco Franco has been feeding on the hope that he could somehow persuade Russia to return the $500 million in gold which the Spanish Republican government shipped off to Moscow in the early days of the civil war. When onetime Republican Finance Minister Juan Negrín died last winter in Paris, Franco came into possession of the Soviet receipts for the gold (TIME, Jan. 14), and Russia could no longer deny having got the money. But Radio Moscow last week dashed all of Franco's hopes. After depositing the money, said Radio Moscow, the Spanish Republicans "frequently asked...
...thousands of U.S. gardeners, the best reading of the winter comes when the postman delivers the spring catalogue of Jackson & Perkins Co., the world's biggest rose growers. This spring the J. & P. catalogue displayed more than 120 different varieties of roses in all floral colors except blue, breathlessly described them in the rosiest of prose. Among the new roses to dream over were Aida ("displays the same majestic grandeur and dark beauty as its namesake"), Golden Fleece ("performs with all the grace and beauty of a flirting ballerina") and Spartan ("no race of men ever existed as strong...
Freshman participation in the intramural program has already topped participation during any previous complete year, Samborski announced. During the fall and winter seasons, 757 of the 1069 members of the class took part in the program...