Word: winterized
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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After reading the list of clergymen and educators who signed a protest against the U.S. nuclear tests, I wondered what they were doing when the U.S.S.R. was making tests last winter...
...large, lonesome Nevada last week the winter snows that gave the state its name† began melting on the mountain flanks. Below the snowline, 110,000 sq. mi. of the nation's sixth biggest state came alive with spring activity. Along the Sierra Nevada, Basque sheepherders led freshly shorn flocks to summer pasture, kept wary vigil against marauding mountain lions. In the revived ghost town of Virginia City, cars disgorged Midwestern tourists to gaze at Piper's Opera House and Lucius Beebe's Territorial Enterprise. Around Reno, candidates for grass widowhood whiled away their residence on dude...
...comparatively short span of six months, seen both his stubbornness and his pride vindicated." At the Paris conference, recalled London's conservative Daily Telegraph, "Mr. Dulles stood out from his other ministerial colleagues like a gnarled tree stump, incongruously recalling the hard winds of winter among a bed of spring flowers all heralding the soft days of sunshine ahead. But the sun failed to shine. When the ministers met this week in Copenhagen, therefore, it was the gnarled tree stump that seemed congruous and seasonal, with the spring flowers looking and sounding sadly out of place...
...Army medic discovered that he had persistent nose bleeds and declared him 4-F. Then, last summer, his mother broke a vertebra, and he went back to Texas to coach her piano students for six weeks. By that time it was too late to think of bookings for the winter season...
...pickup in outdoor workers, yet initial jobless claims for the week also turned down by 19,800. ¶Retail sales rose in April to $16.1 billion, 2% better than March. Most important, durable goods registered a gain for the first time this year, while housing, slowed by a cold winter and a wet spring, was picking up speed rapidly. April housing jumped to an annual rate of 950,000, v. a level of 880,000 in March, and is expected to do even better in May. ¶ Inventories declined still another $700 million in March, bringing closer the time when...