Word: winterizer
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...investigation was largely stalled by winter break. "We have been waiting for students and employees to return so we can reinterview them," he said...
NICOSIA, Cyprus--Syria has talked Iran into delaying its winter offensive against Iraq and ending attacks on Kuwait, Arab diplomatic sources said yesterday...
...sweaty job in that part of the Soviet Union, where summer temperatures reach well into the 90s, and the combines had no cabins. After a few minutes the driver would be surrounded by a cloud of grain chaff and dust that made breathing difficult. In winter it was so cold that Gorbachev had to wrap himself in straw to keep from freezing. He stood it well enough to be awarded the Order of the Red Banner of Labor in 1949, a rare honor for an 18-year-old. The award, his impeccable political credentials -- peasant background, father and grandfather Communist...
...Winter deals fictionally with the rise and fall, and then the rise and fall again, of Germany during the first 45 years of the 20th century. This vast subject is interesting in a number of ways, although a sense of surprise is not one of them; nearly everyone knows how World Wars I and II turned out. Deighton's purpose is not to astound but to explain. He meticulously traces the lives of two brothers, the sons of a wealthy Berlin financier and his beautiful American wife. Peter Winter is the elder by three years; Paul, born...
...Still, Winter is a relatively painless way to absorb a great deal of information. Those who feel guilty wasting their time on made-up stories can assuage their consciences with Deighton's exhaustive supply of names, dates and places that mattered. Or they might wait for the mini-series for which this sprawling novel seems tailor-made...