Word: frigid
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When Thomas Aquinas Murphy graduated from high school in Cicero, Ill., his family was so strapped that he spent most of three frigid years working in ice-making plants before going on to the University of Illinois. Last week, after 36 years at General Motors (all but four in finance), Murphy, 58, took the final step in from the cold; the serious, spectacled accountant was named chairman and chief executive of General Motors, the most prestigious corporate post in the world. "Murph" will take office Dec. 1, a week after his predecessor, Richard C. Gerstenberg, who earned...
...claimed ages of the centenarians or satisfactorily explain longevity among such widely dispersed peoples, says Medvedev. He methodically ticks off each suggested cause. It is not mountain air, because many of the oldsters live at sea level. Nor is it temperature, because some live in torrid and others in frigid zones. Diet varies radically. Some of the people studied subsist on what heart specialists would consider healthful fare while others consume great quantities of fats and wine...
...work has admittedly had its detractors. Pepys attended three productions and termed it "a silly play" and "one of the weakest plays that ever I saw." And one of Britain's finest reviewers, Max Beerbohm, branded it "hackwork" and found it "perfunctory and formless," "tedious and frigid." For my money, it's the supreme work of its kind. And Shakespeare, having at last approached perfection, never returned to the genre again, but proceeded to deeper and darker matters...
...wartime internees knew it is gone. Only vestiges survive. To the west, there is Castle Rock, a jagged mountain of sand and stone upon whose crest is a cross, a more permanent version of the one Japanese Christians had placed there Easter morning 1943. But the barracks that were frigid in winter, broiling in summer, and crowded always are gone. What remains now are concrete foundations and a few scattered sections of chain-link fence topped with strands of barbed wire, forcing the visitors to search their hearts and memories to evoke what it once...
...marriage involved sexual relations," confessed a 42-year-old Marseilles secretary. "She'd always say the same thing: 'I'm going to end up pregnant,' " complained her husband. A 36-year-old librarian from Dieppe said that she had accepted the fact that she was frigid "the way others have a crooked nose or are missing...