Word: wintered
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...four horses crowded in to hear the home-town boy open his campaign. Actually, Lucas was getting a late start: his Republican opponent, ex-Congressman Everett Dirksen, had been running for months. Dirksen, onetime isolationist, had seemingly abandoned his position during his term in the House, but this winter he was talking isolation again and his stand had re-won him the favor of the Chicago Tribune's Colonel Bertie McCormick. Launching his campaign last fall; Dirksen pitched his battle on the field of foreign policy, charging that the bipartisan foreign-aid program is "pouring money down a rathole...
...Winter Harvest. The first months were even busier than Dr. Reeves had expected. Before a year had passed, he called in Dr. McShane, just graduated from his own old school, and made him a partner...
...surprised that they do." He added: "It's not the greatest substitute in the world for the real thing, but it's so hard to keep real snow around here." Men were assigned to go about inspecting the pins and tightening them up so that the winter wind would not rattle the snowflakes. In an older lore, the care of snowflakes had been entrusted only to the nicest angels; the Rockefeller Center man said that maintenance of their snowflakes was "in the province of the carpenter...
Three weeks ago, at the winter get-together of the Gridiron Widows, the distaff side of the Gridiron Club, "Evie" cast an appraising eye over "Bootsie's" figure. Sweetly, she remarked that Bootsie, who gave birth to a son six months before, looked quite "robust." In her next column, Evie elaborated on her suspicions: "The stork, so 'they' say, is once more hovering some distance over the William Randolph Hearst Jrs.' . . . house, right on the heels of William Randolph Hearst III's first encounter with this bitter old world . . ." Washington dowagers and debutantes, who find...