Word: winterized
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...swim, shook the town each July 4 with blasts from his is-inch-long toy cannon, set off a homemade bomb in the stone quarry, practiced his rifle marksmanship (he later became one of the Army's best) in the attic on rainy days with a .22. One winter, while crust riding downhill on his sled, he lost control, rammed head first into a stone wall. Unshaken, he would have gone calmly back up for another slide had not friends persuaded him to go to the doctor-who took six stitches to close the gap. Thenceforth...
...Houphouet had been overtaken by history. But behind the scenes he worked agilely to undermine the Mali, freely predicted that the federation would collapse. He is already half right. Fearing to antagonize the Ivory Coast, which hires its workers and is its access to the sea, Upper Volta last winter decided to pull out of Mali. So did Dahomey. Now Houphouet and the leaders of Mali share a common concern over Sekou Toure's ominous flirtation with the Soviet Union and its satellites...
...vacation time now," is his answer. "Visit us again in the fall or winter. Then there will be more students...
Mealtime conversation was expected to be serious. On winter evenings, Father often read to the family from The Book of Knowledge. The boys were sometimes allowed to play baseball or football in their own yard, but their father banned their participation in school athletics-"Circus games," snorted Father. After the boys suffered a long series of illnesses, Father took steps. Winter or summer, the windows of the family car were always kept shut to exclude drafts...
...Crimson football team has been picked for third place in the Ivy League next year, it was revealed yesterday. An "anonymous winter book" compiling the different strengths of the teams gave this prediction at a Monday meeting of the league's grid coaches in Boston...