Word: winterized
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...gained asylum after the end of the 1956 Olympics, swam last night as part of a nation-wide fund raising tour. The water polo team, which defeated Russia in a highly controversial game in the 1956 Olympics, split into two squads and staged first a mock game, then a "winter rugby match," involving heads and feet instead of hands. match," involving heads and feet instead of hands...
...wasn't really that cold last night. Now it may well turn out to be the coldest winter since '88, and the cattle industry will probably be destroyed again (as if it wasn't already under the prosperity of the present administration). But the reason you woke up in a cold sweat was pending examinations; the temperature only reached the low teens last night. The highest we can hope for tomorrow is a low '20s reading and some of the other kind. It'll clear up tomorrow evening and remain cold, but as the feller said...
...beginnings date back just a century ago to the day in 1856 when Innkeeper Johannes Badrutt bought the little Kulm Hotel. Johannes was modestly prospering on summer trade when one autumn he wagered four departing British guests that they could stroll around St. Moritz in midwinter without overcoats. That winter the four struggled upland through the snow, arrived in St. Moritz to find the sun so warm that Johannes was waiting in his shirtsleeves. He won his bet. Next winter the four came back with friends, and the town was on its way to fame as a winter resort. Johannes...
After Johannes died, son Caspar bought the nearby Palace, later turned it over to his 22-year-old son Hans, who furnished it with Gobelin tapestries, the finest crystals, magnificent antiques. In the palmy days before and after World War I the Palace became a kind of winter home for the very rich and the very royal. The Maharaja of Hyderabad would arrive with 500 trunks and a personal cook, who sprinkled gold dust on the rice before serving his master's curry. On arriving, the Aga Khan would give Head Porter Chasper $10,000 to be handed...
Cognac Farewell. Such luxurious attentions pay the Palace well. The hotel (which stays open for the summer and winter seasons, closing April-June and mid-September to mid-December) grosses about $2,100,000 annually, plus $275,000 from three swank restaurants around town (Chesa Viglia, Golf, Piz Nair...