Word: winterized
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When Joseph Stalin died the world knew that an era had ended. And because it was the end of a long winter, though not necessarily the coming of spring, the change which ensued in the relations between nations was sometimes called the thaw. For a while the only visible manifestation of the thaw was a general fading, ungluing, cracking of power positions on both sides of the Iron Curtain. In the Soviet empire the melting process has produced popular uprising and high-level confusion as to how the empire should be managed (see below). In the free world...
Among the Southern students who left Harvard in the foreboding winter of 1860, many never lived to see Cambridge again. For those who did return years later, Memorial Hall had arisen as a phantasmagorical reminder of their bitterness toward the North...
During much of fall, winter and spring, Scott is TIME'S delegate-at-large to conventions and regular meetings of many of the thousands of organizations and associations that have, over the years, stemmed from that early American precedent - the New England town meeting. We have long had a particular interest in these groups, which millions of men and women have joined voluntarily for fraternal companionship, to effect some form of civic betterment or for simple self-improvement. Through John Scott, we have a sense of participation and membership, while we contribute what we are best qualified to give...
...Peterborough who would need cars? Students would use horses in the summer, sleighs in the winter, and anyhow there are no roads. Why worry about building new houses in Peterborough? A few poles, some canvas, and a piece of string would provide students with a "Do it yourself house kit." In addition, the entire question of emergency evacuation would be removed...
...think the Dartmouth fellers wouldn't want you up there. You better keep to your own haunts," he said. "Besides the roads up there are usually snowy and it's pretty hard to get there in the winter." Finally, he confessed that Colby Junior is "about 50 miles" from Peterborough...