Word: arctic
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Just as last week's tremors were destroying highways, buildings and lives in Southern California, an even deadlier natural disaster was advancing slowly but inexorably south from Canada into the U.S. By midweek a huge mass of frigid arctic air had practically paralyzed much of the Midwest and East. Temperatures in dozens of cities dropped to all-time lows: -22 degreesF in Pittsburgh; -25 degrees in Akron, Ohio, and Clarksburg, West Virginia; -27 degrees in Indianapolis, Indiana. Chicago schools closed because of cold weather for the first time in history, Federal Government offices shut down in Washington, and East Coast...
...brainstorm on Minnesota, and these are some of the images I would imagine. But I'd first think of the arctic winters, and with cold weather my thoughts instantly go inside...
...here I am, existing miserably in what seems like a sub-arctic clime. And the annoying thing is, everyone here appears to be quite pleased with the general situation...
...Harvard women's hockey team showed Bowdoin what happens to Bowdoin when it leaves the arctic zone of Maine, winning 9-1 last night at Bright Hockey Center...
...Imagine Genghis Khan with a telephone!" What the author of War and Peace had in mind, of course, was the device's military potential. But Genghis Khan as symbol stands for something much larger in the Russian psyche: a force of upheaval that can intrude as suddenly as an arctic gale or a Mongol horde. In the convulsions that wracked Moscow last week, as in the ambush that slaughtered American soldiers in distant Somalia, chaos demonstrated once more that it has long since mastered the long-distance message. Genghis Khan today not only has telephones and satellite-TV links...