Word: frigid
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...climbers saw it, the trip was hardly a waste of time. At the 17,200 ft. level they found heaps of junk discarded by previous climbers-ski bindings, socks, even underwear-plus tons of paper blown round the mountain by 100 m.p.h. winds that rake its frigid slopes...
...State Department has been moderately frigid in its dealings with the militarist dictatorship of Premier George Papadopoulos in Greece. Only last week Assistant Secretary of State Joseph Sisco publicly regretted the lack of sufficient progress toward a return to a constitutional government. But a few days later Secretary of Commerce Maurice Stans flew into Athens and warmly embraced the regime...
...their famous retreat across the wilds of Idaho and Montana. In a major battle at Big Hole Basin, Montana, many of the Nez Perces were killed, including Red Wolf's mother and sister. Finally, on Oct. 5, 1877, Chief Joseph surrendered to the cavalry in Montana's frigid Bear Paw Mountains with the words: "From where the sun now stands I will fight no more forever." Red Wolf became a cobbler, country musician and farmer. In 1967, he returned to Big Hole and turned the first shovelful of dirt for the visitor center at Big Hole Battlefield National...
...thrust the car from zero to 60 m.p.h. in 13 sec., drive it up a 5% grade at 60 m.p.h. and give it a top speed of 80 m.p.h. To make the engine marketable, the company must also find a way to lessen the danger of freeze-ups in frigid weather and the problem of quickly getting up steam to start. SES staffers have only to glance out their windows for inspiration. Company offices are separated by a small stream from the site of the original Stanley Steamer works...
Then, there is his own admission about the myth, his own reasons for desiring to deny it. "What of his own poor experience?" he mumbles. "All lies?" he asks and at last confesses that "he felt a hate for the legions of the vaginally frigid...