Word: coldest
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Record. It was the coldest night of the fall season. A mean wind chilled an audience that failed by 200 to fill the opera house (capacity: 3,500) of St. Louis' Municipal Auditorium. The loudspeakers set up to blare the speech to an expected overflow crowd in the square outside were not needed. Willkie's delivery, awkward in 1940, turned out to be only slightly improved. And he had to race through his speech to squeeze it into a 30-minute national hookup, holding up his hand to silence applause. He still had nine paragraphs to go when...
...Deal measure, notably Rural Electrification, the Securities Exchange Act, the Utility Holding Company Act. He has differed with New Deal strategists, but once Administration policy has been decided upon, he has, with but minor and rare exceptions, fought tooth & toenail to carry it through the House. He has been coldest to New Deal labor measures...
...used to odd weather, allowed they had never seen its beat. A thunderstorm ripped through Boston, pummeling pedestrians, toppling chimneys, uprooting trees, smashing store windows and starting fires. The storm whooshed across the state, wound up in the Berkshires with a seven-inch snowfall. Next day Boston had the coldest April 15 in history...
Cold Comfort. This was the hope and promise that warmed the citizens of the 17 oil-rationed Eastern states as they shivered in winter's coldest weather. But hope was nearly all they had to keep them warm: the fuel-oil shortage had at last reached the crest of the crisis...
...Coldest and snowiest Christmas will be James Aldridge's who should be in Moscow by then. He will probably hear plenty of droshky sleigh bells, as the Russians have a lot more to celebrate this year than the Germans-but even so hungry Moscow must be a pretty grim place to spend Christmas...