Word: frigid
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...above padding a bill. Her aged mother sits through most of dinner in a glazed reverie. A millionaire guest tells the Rhodeses how much he enjoyed eating "ut doaks" in the U.S. Barbara laughs irrepressibly when she realizes he is saying hot dogs, and the rich man turns frigid. Linguistic laggards themselves, the Rhodeses nonetheless know enough French to sense barbed undercurrents in the conversational flow...
...much the same reason, McCalla's suicide is only mildly tragic. In a long paragraph at the end, and once or twice during the proceedings, Halberstam indicates that the new sheriff was caught between duty to his supporters (father, preacher, frigid and nagging wife) on the one hand, and, on the other, a desire to say the hell with it all (frigid and nagging wife). Although he flatly and ethically rejects Angelo's offer of five thousand dollars a year, in return for a certain averting of the eyes, he goes for Claudia, the prostitute, like an alcoholic...
...victory, the sextet's eighth straight, was witnessed in the frigid Watson Rink by a sparse crowd. The snow storm kept down attendance but did not hall the Cornell hockey team from reaching Cambridge, although the Big Red swimmers did not quite make it. The sextet came from Williamstown Friday night by bus and was able to return to upstate New York yesterday afternoon
...postponed. Snow stopped falling, the sky cleared, and a white winter sun shone down. At 12:51 o'clock on Jan. 20, John Fitzgerald Kennedy, his breath frosty in the frigid air, raised his right hand and pronounced the fateful words: "I do solemnly swear...
...didn't want to marry any of the young men I grew up with-not because of them but because of their life. I didn't know what I wanted. I was still floundering." Her friends sensed her feelings. "She had the reputation of being very frigid," says Jonathan Isham. "She was rather aloof and reserved, but everybody liked her, although she seemed to talk an awful lot about animals...