Word: winterizer
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...rumor started going around in the winter of freshman year that the Union's coffee didn't have caffeine. After that, a lot of people wondered how they had been able to pull all those all-nighters. It was about the same time that I was trying to figure out where the pass keys for all the Yard dorms were coming from. And who was Charles Montalbano...
Democrats are also placing high hopes on three other races: Tennessee, where the retirement of Senator Howard Baker has led to a free-for-all among four Republicans vying to run against Democratic Congressman Albert Gore Jr.; Mississippi, where popular former Democratic Governor William Winter is challenging Republican Thad Cochran; and Iowa, where an acrimonious race is shaping up between freshman Senator Roger Jepsen, a conservative Republican, and Representative Tom Harkin, a liberal Democrat. In each case the outcome will partly turn on the popularity of the man at the top of the ballot, Ronald Reagan...
...month. At the time Orfila, who is an accomplished Washington socializer, was still working for the O.A.S. and collecting his $88,000-a-year salary. He continued working as both a diplomat and a member of Gray & Co. until his resignation from the O.A.S. on March 31. Last winter, a black limousine with diplomatic plates that read "OAS 8" was often seen idling outside the Power House, while Orfila worked within. Although Orfila insists that he did no lobbying while he was on both payrolls and that he was moonlighting from the O.A.S. on accumulated leave time, the O.A.S. this...
...people batted a mascaraed or folded eyelid last month when the China Silk Fashion Color Association announced its forecast in seasoned Parisian tones: "Sprightly beach colors and bronzes of primitive simplicity will be popular in China this spring and summer, with cheerful pastels taking over in the autumn and winter...
...Whatever its problems, wonderful, demented Yellowknife has more spirit than any other town I know of in Canada. Take the referendum, for instance, called some years back to determine whether or not the town wanted home mail delivery. Yellowknifers voted a resounding 'No,' even though winter temperatures can plunge to 40 below zero, if only because during the long dark months many of them get to meet each other only when they pick up their mail at the post office. And then, a miner, stopped outside the post office by an inquiring photographer from the Yellowknifer and asked...