Word: frigid
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...5TRATOSPHERIC FALLOUT. The third kind of fallout-stratospheric-will not disappear so quickly. Bombs of more than a megaton of power send a large part of their ballooning fireballs climbing high into the stratosphere where there are no falling raindrops or snowflakes. In the frigid stable stratosphere, extremely fine particles of radioactive matter from a big bomb may hang suspended for years-and the bigger the bomb, the more of its dangerous fallout goes into the stratosphere...
...lunches and explains: "I just order what I think would be a decent meal for three men, and when it's not enough, I order more." For working booze ("Whisky is for fun") Jackie absorbs six bottles a day of ruby-red Nuits-Saint-Georges-chilled, to the frigid disapproval of the Nuits-Saint-Georges bottlers...
...above padding a bill. Her aged mother sits through most of dinner in a glazed reverie. A millionaire guest tells the Rhodeses how much he enjoyed eating "ut doaks" in the U.S. Barbara laughs irrepressibly when she realizes he is saying hot dogs, and the rich man turns frigid. Linguistic laggards themselves, the Rhodeses nonetheless know enough French to sense barbed undercurrents in the conversational flow...
...much the same reason, McCalla's suicide is only mildly tragic. In a long paragraph at the end, and once or twice during the proceedings, Halberstam indicates that the new sheriff was caught between duty to his supporters (father, preacher, frigid and nagging wife) on the one hand, and, on the other, a desire to say the hell with it all (frigid and nagging wife). Although he flatly and ethically rejects Angelo's offer of five thousand dollars a year, in return for a certain averting of the eyes, he goes for Claudia, the prostitute, like an alcoholic...
...victory, the sextet's eighth straight, was witnessed in the frigid Watson Rink by a sparse crowd. The snow storm kept down attendance but did not hall the Cornell hockey team from reaching Cambridge, although the Big Red swimmers did not quite make it. The sextet came from Williamstown Friday night by bus and was able to return to upstate New York yesterday afternoon