Word: wintrye
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One wintry day in 1908, Rubinstein was alone, broke and hungry in a Berlin hotel room, his career stalled, unable to pay the rent, a love affair in tatters. He took the belt from an old robe, fastened it to a hook on the wall and put a loop around...
Still, the failure to attack sooner cost Britain's fighting men dearly. With no warning, Argentina's air force roared across the skies southwest of Port Stanley last week to deal the British their worst casualties of the campaign. Demolished on that disastrous Tuesday were two landing ships...
That call for springlike optimism was a tall order in a country where two months of wintry martial rule has crushed the independent Solidarity labor movement, put more than 5,000 of its members and sympathizers in detention camps, clamped severe restrictions on personal liberty, and left at least ten...
On the road to Warsaw, I encountered Poland at its most beautiful-a perfect wintry landscape of rolling plains and snow-covered forests. I also encountered military vehicles-trucks, armored personnel carriers, light tanks and some light artillery-all heading south to Warsaw. The militiamen at checkpoints fingered newly issued...
Under a wintry Italian sky, a gray-suited and solemn Lech Walesa, his wife Miroslawa and a 13-member delegation from Solidarity strode across the Vatican's stone-paved Court of San Damaso to the Apostolic Palace. For the occasion, the Swiss Guards had donned their red-plumed metal...