Word: frigid
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Yesterday, the thermometer dipped to 25 degrees. Today's high is expected to be a frigid 40 Fahrenheit...
Whether it was the injuries or the frigid Cambridge air, Harvard came out that in the second half and gave up a goal 10:18 in on a two-person break-away...
...century America: women enjoy sex. In the cover story Henry Anatole Grunwald (later a TIME managing editor and TIME Inc. editor-in-chief) elegantly examined the emergence of 20th century American women from "under Queen Victoria's long shadow." These liberated souls were "by no means as frigid as they have been made out." Nearly all of them "went in for petting." Even older generations engaged in such hot pastimes as "flirting, flirtage, courting, bundling, spooning, mugging, smooching, larking, sparking." And all women needed romantic attention -- "generalized emotional stimulation," in Kinsey's starchy words -- to get in the mood. Added...
...century's worst maritime disasters. Heading across the frigid Baltic Sea from Estonia to Sweden, the passenger ferry Estonia capsized and sank just before dawn on Wednesday. Of the roughly 1,000 people aboard, more than 900 were confirmed drowned. The tragedy, believed to have been caused by water leaking in through the retractable front-loading door, provoked the London-based International Maritime Organization to question the stability of all "roll on, roll off" ferries...
...worst is over for undergraduates who've braved the recent frigid nights armed with nothing but prohibited space heaters and extra blankets...