51.   The reports eased concern that heating oil supplies, also low after the past cold winter, would dwindle to uncomfortably low levels in the months ahead.

52.   The plan, as the new general manager outlined this past winter, was to assemble a lineup.

53.   The popularity of the park might be remarkable in light of the horror of this past winter.

54.   The world is a better place than it was just this past winter.

55.   Third baseman Mike Lowell, whom the Yankees traded out of their minor-league system this past winter, is on the mend from testicular cancer surgery.

56.   This region suffered through a snow drought this past winter, which likely contributed to the tinder-dry conditions.

57.   This past winter it got cold and stayed cold, and we never had the rapid up-and-down temperature cycle that is more typical.

58.   This past winter the league had a trial run of six games, with two teams in the Midwest and a team put together by women in New York.

59.   This past winter was dominated by winds from the west which brought mild air masses from the Pacific Ocean.

60.   Trading him this past winter at least would have shown that they were committed to getting something for him.