Word: cold
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When Diego had stopped erupting, a pretty, 21-year-old bank worker named Martha Figueroa poured a little cold water on the lava. Said she: "Every time a girl wearing a rebozo comes into the bank, all the girls behind the counter say how beautiful she looks. But if I wore one the boss would ask me if I thought I was a turista, or was on holiday in Cuernavaca. And it is going to continue that way as long as people are afraid of what people will say and the stylish people think a rebozo is the badge...
...rains came too late. Under a lowering sky, the tennis team went down to its first league defeat yesterday against Cornell, 7 to 2. The Cayugans took all six singles matches and the first doubles match to stop cold the Crimson's five game winning streak...
Midfielder Peter Withington has caught a cold and will be unable to see action today, but his loss will be compensated for by the return of Paul Davidson, last year's Freshman captain...
...Cold Perfectionists. But there was something wrong with all of them. They showed a "mechanization of human relationships," described themselves and their spouses as undemonstrative. There was, Dr. Kanner found, "no glamor of romance in premarital courtship, no impetuousness in postnuptial mating." He saw only one mother hug her child warmly and bring her face close to his; many of the busy fathers hardly knew their children...
...Were the cold parents freezing their children into schizophrenia? Dr. Kanner did not say yes or no; but he has found no case of infantile autism among children of "unsophisticated" parents. Said he of his pathetic patients: "Their withdrawal seems to be an act of turning away . . . to seek comfort in solitude...