Word: frigid
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Serendipity struck a group of Ohio State University geologists last December as they picked away at the stratified sediment in an ancient stream bed high in the frigid Transantarctic Mountains. Investigating rock strata to learn more about the Antarctic ice sheet, they uncovered a small fossilized bone fragment with continent-sized implications...
Unexpected verged on inexplicable as hot teams suddenly turned frigid, or sure losers suddenly won. How to explain, for example, the Canadiens' 21 games with only one loss-followed by three losses and a tie? Who could have predicted that the Bruins would win six out of seven with All-Star Defenseman Bobby Orr sidelined? And how about the Rangers, those longtime patsies? Last week they had a Stanley Cup play-off berth all sewed up, and were within striking distance of winning the N.H.L. championship-for the first time in 26 years...
...frigid ice sheet 7 miles from Thule, Greenland, last week, members of an Air Force recovery team continued their hunt for H-bomb parts and contaminated debris scattered by the crash of a B-52 SAC bomber last month. Searchers armed with scintillation counters came upon chunks of wreckage that caused their instruments to go off scale at their maximum 2 million counts-per-minute rate-indicating a level that was above the highest count recorded at the Palomares, Spain, crash site in 1966. To minimize the threat that the radiation poses to plant and animal life, the recovery operation...
...June, after a minimum of debate, the 176-man Parliament agreed by an overwhelming vote of 159 to 13. What happened? Immediately, of course, a flood of new books came out under such labels as the "Porno Series" and with such titles as Stark-Naked, the story of a frigid girl whose therapy by an orgasm expert is carefully detailed. The ecstatic exactness of description had not been legal before, and publishers settled back to await the hordes of buyers...
With winter coming on, Jordan is almost frantically concerned about the 200,000 West Bank refugees who are crowded into makeshift tent camps throughout the country. Most of the camps have been moved from the frigid desert plateau that surrounds Amman (where the temperature at night dips as low as 15°F) to the Jordan River Valley, which is 1,000 ft. below sea level and 30° warmer than the plateau. The valley itself is a treacherous campsite, prone to flash floods and violent sand storms; at one camp last month, a sandstorm shredded more than 600 tents...