Word: winterized
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...bone-wet chill of winter lifted, and pale sunlight laid shadows of the leafless chestnut trees in fine tracery on the cobbles alongside the Champs Elysees. The swank Ritz cocktail lounge and the grave Plaza Atheéneée bar were shrill with the sound of American females emitting the ritual cries of greeting as they hailed each other from divan to divan. In the lush Victorian plush of Maxim's, stumpy men from Manhattan's Seventh Avenue sat heavily, resting weary feet. Fashion reporters, department-store buyers and manufacturers, they were gathered for the annual rite...
...sophomore, he is more than a match for the gangling giants he plays against. With his twisting one-hand jump shot Don easily earned the Most Valuable Player award at this winter's Orange Bowl tournament, almost alone has boosted Pitt to a 13-9 record.
...Moritz can try the Cresta chute for 24 Swiss francs ($5.60). During most of its accident-spotted, 72-year history, Cresta has catered to blue-blooded sportsmen-nobility and well-heeled wanderers with an urge to prove their courage by risking their necks. Only in 1948, when the Winter Olympics were held at St. Moritz, did Cresta-type sledding get worldwide recognition as part ot the games. But year after year the international brigade returns. There are always a few novices anxious to earn the red-and-white badge which signifies that they have conquered Cresta and entitles them...
Probably Yale's strongest point is its bottom three players. John Oettinger, Mait Jones and Ash Eldridge. These three were the second, third and fourth men on last year's undefeated Eli freshman team, and won their matches against the Crimson freshmen last winter...
Idyl's End. There are quiet nights as the hunters sit silently with their rifles awaiting the antlered deer at a salt lick; they go spear fishing in the forest rivers, wake to brilliant mornings when billions of dewdrops shimmer like miniature suns, and huddle in the winter snugness of their clay-walled home with its roaring Russian stove. The climax of the year is the tiger hunt, when dogs and men go out to track down young cats and wrestle them into submission. And through this rhythmic cycle of the seasons, love springs up between Hryhory and Natalka...