Word: colded
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...weapons and capital machinery. Administration officials maintain that the freeze has furthermore deprived Iran of basic imports such as cooking oils, tires and even valves for Tehran's water supply system. Insisted one Administration spokesman: "The way we see it, the Iranians should start to get cold and hungry this time next month...
...city man has been working out side, and his feet are cold. He takes off his boots, leans back in his chair, and props up his feet on the Glenwood's footrest. Yeast works in the bread and in the city man's mind. He decides to build a solar house. He's going to out-Dubin Dubin. Out-Butler Butler. When he's a very old man, too creaky to cut and split eight cords of wood a year, he's going to stay warm. Damn them all! ?John Skow
...year than during the same period in 1978. A relatively warm November has helped, but the Department of Energy gives much of the credit for the shrinkage in demand to high prices that in turn have led to greater conservation efforts. Citizens are discovering that plugging holes to keep cold air out and hot air in actually works?and saves money. This may not add up to Jimmy Carter's "moral equivalent of war," but the President's description of the energy crisis no longer seems absurd. Heat itself has regained its elemental magic, and keeping warm has become...
...income will go for heat; price increases mean a thinning out of her already poor diet. "Why should these oil people get rich while the poor people are going to freeze to death?" she asks. "Maybe I won't even be here by the time it gets really cold...
Efforts to help the poor involve both motion and commotion. Their effective ness is uncertain. Vermont has tightened eligibility requirements for fuel assistance money, and though Republican Governor Richard Snelling has said that "no Vermonters will suffer needlessly from the cold this winter," others disagree. Former Lieutenant Governor T. Garry Buckley, also a Republican, says, "I guarantee the regulations will result in some elderly persons freezing to death...