Word: winterized
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...years the great old man, son of a tenant farmer, had lent dignity and wisdom to the Senate of the U.S. Six times the people of Georgia had returned him to Washington, where he served with distinction on twelve committees, as chairman of five. In the winter of 1955 he was the ranking U.S. Senator, and as the Senate's president pro tern he stood fourth in line of succession to the presidency. Last week, on a warm winter's day in his home town of Vienna, Ga. (pop. 2,200), Senator Walter Franklin George, 77, submitted...
Bare Shelves. Jobs were plentiful in the expanding economy. The unemployment problem of last spring evaporated in the busy summer months. Not only were last winter's jobless put to work, but 200,000 immigrants and new workers were added to payrolls as well. Employment prospects now look so good that the government has decided to reverse the usual policy and keep the immigration doors open all winter to skilled workers...
When the Soviet ambassador suggested to Foreign Minister Sardar Mohammed Nairn Khan (a younger brother of the Premier) that Bulganin and Khrushchev might like to address a big public meeting or two, Nairn replied that the Afghan winter was too cold for the distinguished guests to stand in the open for long. "Oh," replied the Soviet ambassador, "our leaders are accustomed to cold...
...prostrate at once. Then, for weeks, all was void, and black, and silent, and Nothing became the universe. Total annihilation could be no more. From these . . . attacks I awoke, however . . . Just as the day dawns to the friendless and houseless beggar who roams the streets throughout the long desolate winter night-just so tardily-just so wearily-just so cheerily came back the light of the Soul...
CRIME president Cliff F. Thompson stepped out of his room, his face blue with cold, and swore a great oath at the Farmers Almanac for predicting the coldest winter of the century, James R. Ilgenfritz, president of New England Storm and Screen windows, for making it come true, and Radcliffe's Dean Lacey for removing the only available heating system...