Word: colder
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...freezing in Buenos Aires last week, but no colder than the chances that Argentina would act against the Axis: > Liberal, hemisphere-minded President Roberto Marcelino Ortiz, after two years of increasing blindness from diabetes, at last resigned his office. This left the job to conservative Acting President Ramon S (for nothing) Castillo, whose neutrality quivers with Axis-sounding overtones...
...anxious Britain and the rousing U.S., this confidence was heartening. If Russian confidence was justified, victory might be in sight. If not, the long night of war might grow darker and colder than ever...
Others began to die. "We all dreaded night to come on." a survivor said. "It was colder at night. Several men tried to jump overboard, but we kept them inside. When they died we had to throw the bodies overboard. Sharks came close, waiting. We shouted, we made noises, we did whatever we could to scare them off. The men's lips were swollen and cracked, and once when it rained we tried to catch a few drops of rain on the tongue." Total hours...
What the committee eventually decides about the rates on armed U.S. vessels will be a good measure of the dollar cost of revising the Neutrality Act. For nowhere in the world are there colder, soberer, less wishful judges of naval warfare. They have no "inside" information about ship movements. But because they follow closely all the news about sailings, submarines and mine fields, and because they have money at stake, they can compute remarkably accurate odds...
...married Mimosa Gates, a prospector's sister, soon headed south for California. In California came the whisper again: Gold in Nevada! Key Pittman arrived in Tonopah, Nev. by stagecoach, a journey colder and more hazardous than any Klondike trip. That was 1902. "Winter of Death," when men dug as many holes for graves as for gold. Pittman missed both, settled down as Tonopah's legal light. By 1910 he was restless again. Congress didn't seem to understand mining-especially silver mining. He went to the Senate in 1912, was re-elected...