Word: winterized
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...next stop: population of the town (broken down by ethnic groups), its prides and its problems, its political complexion, the situation in the congressional races, the people who should be mentioned in his speech. Said one staff report as the plane droned over Texas: "San Antonio is a popular winter resort and a haven for many elderly people who have retired there. This, perhaps, explains the Republican vote in presidential years...
...finest wines, produced from severely pruned vines, there can never be great quantities. The sad fact was, however, that a vine-killing winter and a rainy, grape-thwarting summer had turned 1956 into a bad year for all western Europe's winegrowers-a disastrous one for Bordeaux and West Germany, a poor one in both quantity and quality for Burgundy. The government has 'already given Burgundy producers permission to strengthen some of their poorer grades by chaptalization. a doctoring process devised by one Jean Chaptal for adding sugar during fermentation to build up a wine's alcoholic...
...Canada." St. Laurent began a new practice of taking a different Cabinet Minister or official home to lunch with him every day, to talk politics and government business over the meal. He also drew up an ambitious schedule of personal appearances for every weekend during the fall and winter, to see and be seen by voters outside Ottawa. He has already paid visits to Sherbrooke and Toronto. Last weekend he went to Montreal and Quebec City...
...Owen, who coached Olympic champion Tenley Albright, said that she expected an increased enrollment for her lessons because of "a boom in figure skating interest provided by Tenley's showing in the Olympics and her appearance on television last winter...
Bert Tallamy, 54, a civil engineer who spends his winter weekends snowshoeing in the mountains near his West Sand Lake, N.Y. home, has been building public projects ever since he graduated from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in 1925. He got his first job building sewers and water mains in Buffalo, soon after formed his own firm contracting for municipal water systems, dams and sewage-disposal projects in upstate New York. In 1945, when New York embarked on an $800 million public-works program. Governor Thomas E. Dewey asked him to become deputy superintendent of public works in charge of coordinating...