Word: frigid
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Catholics can rightly argue that "there is a profound dislocation of a sacramental nature found within Protestantism." But true Christian spirituality, McDonnell argues, requires both framework and freedom. "Without the framework the way is easily open to a prayer which is emotional, subjective, pompous; without freedom prayer becomes mechanistic, frigid, oblivious to the needs of the local church...
When astronauts eventually soar be yond the moon to explore the distant planets, they will find Jupiter a dangerous place to visit. Even if they manage to withstand the tremendous pull of Jupiter's gravity and survive the frigid atmosphere of ammonia, methane, hydrogen and helium, they may well perish in the gigantic storms that sweep the planet every decade...
...least, has declared himself out of the running. Said he: "I see no reason why Long should not continue as whip along with his other committee assignments. So far as the whip's office is concerned, I was lukewarm to it last year, and today I am absolutely frigid...
...promises to pay an extra dividend. To be kept in liquid form, it must be stored in refrigerated tanks at a temperature of - 423 °F. And since a plane moving at scramjet speeds will be seared by the heat of friction as it moves through the atmosphere, the frigid hydrogen will make an ideal coolant to be pumped through the skin of wings and fuselage before it is burned...
...when her fortunes ebbed-in one crisis she lost the use of her legs for some weeks. If she was a hysteric, Author Davison considers it highly unlikely that Mary was driven by lust to contrive the death of her husband. Instead, like most hysterics, Mary was probably sexually frigid...