Word: winterized
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...level to a bottom-scraping 6 ft., thus forcing the carriers to lighten their loads if they were to proceed. For the shippers the lightening was time-consuming and expensive (up to $1,000,000 a month). But the jam-up was even more critical to Chicagoans: as winter approached, it threatened them with a fuel crisis, since many of the barges carry coal...
Conversation Wing-Ding. Of all things, Mr. De perhaps loved best a good wingding of a conversation; in one evening's discussion he dwelt perceptively on Diego Rivera, the habits of alligators, Dickens, the Oklahoma legislature, fine printing, Arabian oil, academic freedom, the winter treatment for banana trees in Dallas patios. And what he most abhorred, in his vain way, was weakness-especially weakness of the intellect. Aging, the sight of one eye totally gone, he began to suffer the blood-draining anguish of aplastic anemia. He feared that somehow his mind soon would be affected, found the thought...
...Swiss Ski Association formally asked the Soviet Winter Sports Federation to keep its members away from Swiss ski competitions. The presence of Russian athletes, explained the Swiss, might well provoke "unpleasant demonstrations" among the Swiss themselves, and among the 10,000 Hungarian refugees to whom Switzerland has offered asylum...
...village economy, during the fishing season, when most of Hartford, Albany, and New York itself seem to invade with their dollars, low-slung cars, and fancy spinning reels. But these gents have long since retired to their Budwieser and television, leaving the village in an indolent euphoria which, every winter, seems to convince the 100 permanent inhabitants that the country life, even considering all the rigours of Quebec snow and cold, is best...
Randolph Churchill, who can be counted upon to put most snidely what others may be thinking, compared Eden's generalship with Hitler's conduct in leading his troops to Stalingrad and leaving them there, except that "Hitler, with all his faults, did not winter in Jamaica." The Conservative Daily Telegraph reported Eden in Jamaica keeping in "fitful touch with London." which was not "fair to his colleagues in London-or, indeed, to the country." In the bars of Fleet Street and the clubs of St. James's, Eden's future and a possible realignment of Tory...