Word: frigid
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...needs to remember to buy a good comforter, too. Because at Harvard, it really doesn't matter if you were valedictorian or not. It matters if you can keep warm during those frigid winter nights when the heat isn't working. If Paul Siemens is smart, he'll let college teach him how to put things in perspective. That is, unless he wants to be known as the "Sore Loser" for the next four years...
When Eric Nurse, 52, first went to sea with the fishing fleet from the port of Champneys East in Newfoundland, the cod seemed plentiful enough to last forever. Like his father and grandfather before him, Nurse returned year after year to the frigid, treacherous North Atlantic to harvest the rich waters of the Grand Banks, one of the world's most productive fishing areas...
Among the experts who agree is Yoel Rak, an anatomist at Tel Aviv University. He believes "Neanderthals have nothing to do with our history." They may well have become extinct, he says, because they were too highly specialized -- probably well adapted to survive the frigid temperatures of Ice Age Europe. But when such conditions change, he notes, "the highly specialized creatures are at a tremendous disadvantage...
...strongest performance in nearly a decade. Commerce Department officials attributed the good news to a jump in U.S. exports, which rose by $2 billion in December. In other good news, the nation's unemployment rate dropped a surprising two-tenths of a percent in February, in spite of frigid weather in the Midwest and Northeast...
...mood at the Alpine races was exuberant. The frigid temperature -- down to 1 degree F -- seemed only to stimulate flag-waving, cowbell-clanking Norwegians. Before the race they bounced up and down to keep warm -- and to keep time with the weirdly appropriate golden oldies blasting from loudspeakers. One tune, Achy Breaky Heart, seemed a dirge for the brilliant career of Swiss veteran Franz Heinzer, whose bindings snapped as he leaped out of the downhill's starting gate. Heinzer whacked the snow with his poles in fury and three days later announced his retirement...