Word: winterizer
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...five have already left, following a pattern set by the young over the past century. Sauk Centre is flat and prairie plain. Despite the scattering of dairy farms and silos and little groves of trees, the landscape rolls open as the ocean right up to the edge of town. Winter lasts about eight months, and at 7:30 on Feb. 7, the birthday morning, the view from a frost-coated Palmer House window was of what a local writer, Chuck Rathe, calls glittering bitterness--a sub-zero refraction of sunrise on salt and ice and frost, sparkling through clouds...
...knows that fires rage out of control, minor mischief is perpetrated by Vandals (never Visigoths, Franks or a single Vandal working alone) and key labor accords are hammered out by weary negotiators in marathon, round-the- clock bargaining sessions, thus narrowly averting threatened walkouts. The discipline required for a winter storm report is awesome. The first reference to seasonal precipitation is "snow," followed by "the white stuff," then either "it" or "the flakes," but not both. The word snow may be used once again toward the end of the report, directly after discussion of ice-slicked roads and the grim...
...squad was on for the first part of its season, the part that included Division II and III opponents and Dartmouth, the worst team in the Ivies. The first sign of trouble came after winter break, when the Big Green visited Cambridge and left with what would be one-quarter of its league wins...
...company's ballot is called a proxy, and most companies send out their proxies each winter or spring along with their annual reports. Shareholders can mail in their votes before the annual corporate meeting--which most companies hold in April or May--or cast them at the meeting itself, where all votes are tabulated...
...former chairman of the Landscape Architecture Program at the Graduate School of Design, is endowed by its donor for six hours of running time a day, according to Oommen. Oommen did not comment on the amount of money saved or lost due to the fountain's inactivity over the winter...