Word: winterized
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...winter long Saint-Tropez is a sleepy, shuttered town on the French Riviera, tucked away in a bay between Cannes and Toulon. Its 4,000 citizens long earned their meager living either by fishing or by working at the nearby naval torpedo factory. About the only vehicles that drove through its shabby streets, until about five years ago, were the creaking buses that carried the laborers back and forth to work. Then, for no apparent reason at all, "St. Trop" (pronounced Sen-tro) suddenly became chic. Today the boom is at a height: Saint-Tropez has become the favorite Riviera...
...drill bits in eight hours, had to soften the stone by firing it with kerosene torches at 4,000° F. They burned, drilled and blasted through two miles of solid rock. Partly to stabilize employment in Canada, contractors there kept up work at full speed through the winter months; they battled towering icefloes that threatened cofferdams, poured concrete in subzero weather, using jets of steam to keep it from freezing while it cured...
...summer quest for the tourist dollar, the world's largest city paraded an exuberant proclamation for the tourist to read: "New York Is a Summer Festival." But grimly unfestive was a shadowy battle that had swirled through the city streets during winter and spring, indeed during all the seasons since World...
...rider of the West is not quite so popular as he seems to his dial-flicking critics. In an analysis of how many viewers watched which types of programs during prime TV time (7 to 10:30 p.m.) on the three networks last winter, the A.C. Nielsen Co. found that horse operas were still trailing variety shows. The ranking, according to each category's share of audience viewing time through the week...
After bobbing around in the low $20 millions all winter, new domestic orders for metal-cutting and shaping tools briefly hit $29.8 million in March (caused by bunching up three large orders that normally would have been spread over a quarter), dropped to $20.8 million again in April, in May jumped to $23.7 million. To economists, who scan toolmakers' order books for a tip-off to future spending plans of a wide range of manufacturers, even such slight changes are encouraging...