Word: frigid
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...sullenness or depression, and the advent of real cheerfulness and kindliness in their stead. Smooth the brow, brighten the eye, contract the dorsal rather than the ventral aspect of the frame, and speak in a major key, pass the genial compliment and your heart must be frigid indeed if it do not gradually thaw...
...water temperature was a frigid 54° one day recently when Mary Margaret Revell, a pretty blonde of 25, stepped into the surf at Sicily's Lido di Mortelle, pulled a pair of goggles over her eyes, and set out for the distant Italian coast. Two and a half hours later, she waded ashore, paused just long enough to gulp down honey, glucose tablets and tea, then started back toward Sicily. The going was tougher now; her right arm developed a cramp; she swallowed sea water and vomited. Only her legs kept her going. At last, after...
Dora Harmsworth is frigid, while her husband Malcolm is a great prig. To make up for the lack of physical love, the pair chatter incessantly about love in the abstract...
...problems created by the fact that men and women are now, in the post-Victorian period, highly conscious of their sexual relationships. "Each is terribly anxious to give the other complete satisfaction," Bettelheim said. "If the woman does not reach this goal, she worries that she is frigid; the man fears that he is not masculine enough for her to enjoy...
...that, in gratitude to the French people, "we're going to send them one of our own masterpieces," the "Sleigh Ride" by Grandma Moses. "Sleigh" travels to Europe in the Captain's Cabin of the S.S. United States, surrounded by a cordon of 500 Marines. President de Gaulle expresses frigid thanks, says he would have preferred one ICBM. The French people flock to see "Sleigh"; they think Grandma Moses looks like Mrs. Kennedy...