Word: cold
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Eskimos call it "the Land of the Little Sticks" because Arctic winds and bitter cold keep its stunted pines from growing beyond the thickness of a finger. But as Operation Morning Light continued in the Canadian wilderness near Great Slave Lake, the searchers discovered remnants of the nuclear-powered Cosmos 954: man-made sticks of radioactive metal stuck in the frozen tundra and ice-covered lakes. At least five chunks of the fallen Soviet spy satellite were located. One, a mere 10 in. long and ½in. thick, was emitting enough radiation to kill anyone foolish enough to hold...
...dogsled run through the Thelon Game Sanctuary. Scientists said that it emitted "moderate" radiation, and while they pondered whether and how to break the ray-absorbing river ice to find out whether more lethal parts lay below, armed Canadian paratroopers set up a camp in the -40° F. cold...
...least temporarily, it may have done so. In West Germany, which annually imports 140 million tons of citrus products from Israel, sales were halted while the fruit was checked out. In The Netherlands, supermarket managers put their Jaffa oranges in cold storage until the poisoning scare blew over...
...socio-economic classes-the blue-collar laborers living in the industrial centers of the state and the tenacious Mississippi farmers who eke out subsistence wages on their 100 or so acres of soil. This time the middle-class--the Chamber of Commerce set--has been left out in the cold...
...almost hysterical fixation on penetration and ejaculation, to the fascinating comment that women who rejected lesbian sex were traitors to their sex), and some truly extraordinary statements about men--men as human beings, as beings capable of emotions and as sexual beings. These statements depicted men as cold, ruthless beings, profoundly concerned through most of their natural lives with the physical terrorization and sexual degradation of women...