Word: coldest
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...coldest, darkest days of the global fuel shortage last winter, Americans could console themselves that the long-ailing dollar was making a valiant recovery. Money traders were eagerly buying dollars because they thought the U.S. would suffer less from the oil squeeze than other countries, and because they were impressed by the fact that two painful dollar devaluations had swung the U.S. trade balance back into the black. The turnaround proved shortlived; in recent months the dollar's value has sunk enough to wipe out almost all the gains posted during the fuel crisis...
...poetically but with a naturalist's restraint about the climate, flora and fauna of the forbidding, fickle northwest corner of Alaska. As few writers have, he describes with nose-to-nose empathy its native Eskimos, an incredibly robust and good-natured people inhabiting one of earth's coldest hells...
...number of Europeans on the road, on the rails or in the air this summer has reached a record 75 million, triple the level of 15 years ago. Largely because much of Europe was beset by the wettest and coldest July in a decade -the worst in France in 90 years-the hordes have been moving south to the Mediterranean in greater numbers and later in the summer than ever before...
...only goes to Harvard while financing the trips his friends make to the Coast?) And, naturally enough, once in the Promised Land, Peter meets Susan--as portrayed by Barbara Hershey, a nicely built body and a little bit of cloth. Before he must return to the streets of coldest Cambridge, the two find some time for a pinch of intrigue, a snort of cocaine, and a fair helping of sex (including one of the longest bouts of screen kissing since Steve McQueen and Faye Dunaway locked jaws in The Thomas Crown Affair). Again, not surprisingly, once home Peter soon realizes...
Except on the coldest days of the Colorado winter, the doors of the Pomona Elementary School annex, on the outskirts of Grand Junction, are opened during recess. The reason is that the building is radioactive. Unless the rooms are aired, radioactive gases and particles seeping through the floors cause the radiation in the school rooms to rise dangerously above safe levels. In fact, during the summer months when the school is closed up, radiation rises to a level 18 times higher than the guideline established by the U.S. Surgeon General...