Word: frigid
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...mitey monarch, King Hussein, carried the custom 14 miles northward when he turned up in ordinary service uniform to review the annual Passing Out parade at the R.A.F.'s Cranwell College in blustery Lincolnshire. No one dared to cross Jordan's stormy ranks, and for a frigid 45 minutes the R.A.F.'s top brass shivered along while hardy Hussein marched around. Chattered Station Commander Group Captain George Reid: "I don't think he realizes that in Lincolnshire the temperature is 10° to 15° lower than Sandhurst...
...chief inquisitor, gets involved in the life of one of his subjects. "She's the first case history I've ever allowed to become more than a statistic," he says. His visa-vis is Jane Fonda, a test pilot's widow who thinks she is frigid; Zimbalist sets out to prove that...
...their tents at 6 a.m., the boys run three-quarters of a mile to a frigid stream and plunge in. They spend hour after hour training muscles, learning survival techniques, studying mountain-craft, developing leadership. In between come big endurance tests: a five-day climb in windswept high country, a six-mile run up and down mountains (best boy's time so far: 38 min. 10 sec.), a 50-mile hike to test speed and accuracy over a specified route, a 48-hour session alone in the woods without food, which becomes a lesson in the edible qualities...
...tubing-which is actually one tube inside another-permits the frigid liquid (-4°F.) to be pumped in and out, constantly recooled and recirculated, until the stomach is frozen to rocklike hardness. But most patients, though fully conscious, feel no discomfort. "Strangely,'' a Wangensteen team member told the American Surgical Association last week, "no patient has complained of the cold tube in his mouth or throat. Nor has any evidence of frostbite of the tongue been observed...
Among the more inhospitable segments of the earth's surface, the frigid continent of Antarctica remains-for scientistsצne of the most magnetic. There is still so much to learn that more than a dozen nations maintain expeditions there. Last week, as they took over their new research ship Eltanin, assorted scientists supported by the National Science Foundation prepared to push U.S. exploration still further-into Antarctica's dangerous, storm-churned seas...