Word: winterized
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Questioned about the ban on spring practice, Yovicsin noted that Gettysburg did practice between winter and spring seasons, said, "there is no question about it, we will have hardships here . . . but with some luck and much co-operation from the boys we hope to be ready for the opening game...
...good, perhaps because he puts so much work into the dialogue, that there's nothing new left for the songs. As her blonde daughter Ivy, Nick Carter brings the house down. He is a delightful summer edition of one of F. Scott Fitzgerald's more uncomfortable winter dreams. Uncle Peter is played by Dave Wells. From the very tips of his moustache he drips with a beguiling, bloody-British, and beautifully portrayed cynicsm...
...almost forgotten sport achieved its proper place on the Harvard scene this winter. After a decade's hibernation, the varsity basketball team woke up, and reinstated itself as a fitting representative of America's most popular game...
...Like a winter-weary farmer watching for the first robin, the auto industry has been nervously looking for signs of a spring upsurge in sales. Last week the robin appeared. New-car sales for the last week in February, announced Ward's Reports, "shot to the highest level in seven months, heralding the awaited spring market upturn." Ford announced that retail sales of Mercury, Lincoln, Ford and Continental for the first two months of 1957 totaled 293,008, the greatest in its history for the period...
...pastoral odes to "Tsentral Park," but few realize that "I search for the viscous and sawdust" is a request for whisky and soda. Devoted to the active verb and the present tense, Pnin invests the simplest acts with explosive vitality ("I never go in a hat even in winter"). In all verbal matters, Pnin would rather be wrong than hesitant, and no doughtier comic immigrant has set foot on the shores of U.S. fiction since Timofey's "tvin" dialectician...