Word: winterized
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Over Speer's protests, and with the informal support of fellow board members, Papa Pecjak took Sharon out of school the day before the meet, drove her and other nonmathematicians to the elimination races at Winter Park, Colo. All four made the Nationals; Sharon won both the downhill and slalom races in her division...
...After a winter of high winds and rain-soaked, skittery greens wherever they played, the leg-weary lady golf pros straggled into Augusta, Ga. last week for the $5,000 Titleholders championship, climax of the Southern campaign. Their luck was still bad. The weather would have discouraged a Marlboro...
...playing by themselves. California's Beverly Hanson, a lanky, bespectacled stylist, snuggled into her candy-striped long Johns and shot a surprising par 72. "I'm a hot-weather golfer," drawled Beverly, "but thanks to this dandy underwear, I've had a very good winter." Right behind her, only a stroke off, plodded the broad-beamed champion herself-affable Patty Berg, 40, seven-time winner and still favorite despite a painful trick knee...
...this time; auto sales are down sharply; and retail business, which was ahead for January (up 3%), took a sudden 29% drop during the February snows, has not yet recovered. Yet mortgage foreclosures are still at a minimum, and such a sensitive economic barometer as New England's winter-sport industry shows a 12% increase...
Another encouraging sign comes from railroaders, who reported that freight car-loadings, which had one of the worst slides, may have hit bottom. Though car-loadings for the year are still 17.5% below 1957, railroaders attribute at least part of the trouble to winter snows that tied up Eastern lines during February, and note a small but definite uptrend so far in March. A second hint that companies may start ordering soon: during a walkout at Aluminum Co. of America's Alcoa (Tenn.) plant late in January, General Electric Co. got a court order after four days to enter...