Word: winterized
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...table conversation in the Northern U.S. this winter seems complete without talk of the new ski slope or the latest office victim of an ill-conceived jump turn. Skiing is quickly coming of age as a major U.S. participant sport. Wherever there is snow, thousands are heading for the slopes and skiing's high, heady adventure; from New Hampshire to New Mexico and West Virginia to Washington State, skiers roll up record business for resort operators and equipment sellers. A dedicated band of cultists, skiers seem oblivious of skiing's built-in hazards. Asks...
From Fanatics to Families. In less than 25 years, skiing has been transformed from an eccentric practice pursued by a handful of fanatic, chilblained young men to the U.S.'s fastest-growing outdoor winter sport. Today, anybody skis-corporation president and office boy, college student and secretary, parents and children. It is no longer a pastime for the well-heeled who could afford to go to Europe to learn. The skiing establishment at Aspen, Colo, is a typical example of what the sport has added to the face of the U.S. A broken-down mining settlement as late...
...nine-year-old boys fell through thin ice on the Charles River and drowned yesterday afternoon. The double fatality was the first of its kind this winter in the Cambridge area...
PRINCETON, N.J.--Bicker, the annual eating club selection period, began last Wednesday, with the Princeton community anxiously hoping to avoid a repetition of last winter's fiasco...
...swirl-dimpled, symbol-specked Weather Bureau maps, the storm gathered in classic pattern: polar air and Gulf of Mexico winds butted along a line that curled like an overturned roller coaster; winds overhead fluxed cold and warm. Translated into ground-level consequences last week, the winter's most severe storm heaved snow, sleet, gales, tornadoes and floods over most of the U.S. west to the Rockies, by week's end was responsible for more than 100 deaths...