Word: cold
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Bishop Cauchon was scarcely cold in his grave before Pope Calixtus IV excommunicated him, while the enraged Rouenais dug up his body and flung it into the town sewer. Last week, further restitution was made to the Maid of Orleans...
...every hole of the first nine, except on the eighth where she only had to hit her ball twice. Thus she broke a woman's record for St. Andrew's. By lunch time Golfer Collett was two up. But Miss Wethered, after a lunch of salad and cold chicken, had not lost her confident one-sided smile. Her drives were long, her irons had sting. Miss Collett suddenly became nervous, uncertain. Calmly Joyce Wethered advanced to lead. It was on the 15th that she definitely stopped the last Collett attempt to win back the morning's lead...
Although a full sized house has not yet been constructed, the inventor claims that it is flood-proof, earth-quake-proof, wind-proof, tornado-proof, heat-proof, cold-proof, and economical and that an airplane could run into it without damaging it. In addition, the partitions and struts are made of hollow duralumin which is pumped full of air to increase the tensile strength of the structure and to enable the children of the house to fall down without being hurt by the springy flooring...
...glow of life"); 3) Afterglow ("dawn and sunset scenes, interiors of luxury"); 4) Firelight ("intimate home relationships, mild affection"), 5) Candleflame ("mild mood reactions . . . feelings of coziness, comfort . . . peace and plenty without opulence"); 6) Sunshine ("mildly stimulating"); 7) Verdante ("youth, freshness, unsophistication, innocence . . . only slightly warm, but definitely not cold"); 8) Aquagreen ("cool lakes in the northwoods"); 9) Turquoise ("peace, tranquility . . . calm tropical seas'"); 10) Azure ("sedate, reserved . . . slightly gloomy"); 11) Nocturne ("night shadows, despair, underworld"); 12) Purplehaze ("pronounced cooling effect"); 13) Fleur-de-lys ("pomp, dignity"); 14) Amaranth ("approaching sensuality and abandon"); 15) Caprice ("hilarious pink, carnival moods...
High in the sky Apollo opened his oxygen supply full. The temperature was nearing a minimum of 76° below zero. The controls were growing stiff from cold. It became impossible to see anything even through the holes in the goggles. In spite of the temperature the flier ungoggled his eyes, the better to watch his instruments. He was dizzy but he pushed the plane slowly through a last thousand feet. At 39,140 ft. he finally pushed it too far. The nose whipped over; the plane plunged 2,000 ft. in a spin. Then the new holder of the altitude...