Word: winterized
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...destiny at will even if they cannot seize it), supplies pour into the beaches from Formosa. Farmers swarm into the fields. But having learned to distrust the promises of Peking, they pack two days' work into the five morning hours, furiously irri gating, hoeing the weeds, planting winter crops. Some, like wizened Tun Men-tse, venture out before dawn even on the odd days, crouching in the dark to get in a couple of hours' labor. It is a gamble, but, says Tun, "we have...
Such bile leaks freely from the pen of Cassandra, whose reigning creative climate is the icy winter of discontent. In 20 splenetic years on the Mirror he has hissed a steady, indiscriminate choler, spraying such targets as physicians ("smooth, lying inefficiency") and dogs ("Man's Best Friend is a fake and a fraud"). A seething Germanophobe, he took the occasion of West German President Theodor Heuss's recent cool reception in England (TIME, Nov. 3) to prick the Germans with his needle quill: "All I want of them is to wait for a generation to pass before they...
...bald but manages to look shaggy in spite of it, he ambles into class apparently costumed to stalk moose, was once accused by Yale President A. Whitney Griswold, when they were both young instructors, of aging his sport coats in a manure pile. He has been known, on a winter day, to wear a neckpiece of red flannel underwear...
With sure instinct for a good story, the editors of the New York World-Telegram and Sun last winter handed Reporter George N. Allen a fat assignment: get the inside dope on one of New York City's problem schools by masquerading as a teacher. Last week, after two months of teaching, Allen began his series. His school: Brooklyn's John Marshall Junior High, which became the city's most publicized last winter, after a month of hoodlum invasions, assaults and an alleged knife-point rape in a school basement ended in the suicide of Principal George...
Last week Japanese security dealers opened a major campaign to attract more women investors. Some 6,000 salesmen began a door-to-door drive urging housewives to invest their husbands' winter salary bonuses-usually one to three months' pay-in stocks. Traditionally given in December, the bonuses used to go for rice wine, New Year's gifts and new clothes. Now a flood of mail urges Japanese wives to "multiply your huband's bonus wisely -in stocks. To become a millionairess is no longer an impossible dream...