Word: frigid
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...Frigid Work. The Senate's machinery is less well lubricated. One hot day this summer, Illinois' Senator Everett Dirksen stopped in to talk to Majority Leader Bill Knowland. Dirksen said he was thirsty, although Knowland had not asked him. Bill Knowland went to his icebox, found the ice trays frozen in from long disuse, began hacking at them with a letter opener. With characteristic single-mindedness, Knowland turned down his aides' suggestion that they get some ice from the Senate restaurant, and ignored Dirksen's pleas to forget it. Fifteen minutes later, Knowland...
...workmanlike portrait of a small American town and its mass hysteria under the terror of a homicidal maniac. The terror and hysteria rise to a high boil when the remains of local women are found neatly decapitated and expertly carved. Before the killer gets his comeuppance, the frigid daughter of one of the town's leading citizens thaws herself out, and town and townsmen are brought to naked life with considerable psychological insight...
...Price turns out unexpectedly to be "a notorious New York gunman," and Actress Laurie takes a bad fall off a cliff. Bouncy little Piper bounces back, only to take another tumble into a crevasse where Price lies dying interminably in shaved ice. As she shivers on a frigid shelf above the killer, the audience shivers in sympathy. But Piper, as the camera reveals when Victor hauls her out on a hawser, needs no sympathy to keep her warm. She is wearing snuggies...
...Boston Red Sox lost their fifth straight yesterday, bowing 2 to 1 to the Pittsburgh Pirates before only 582 fans at frigid, wind-swept Jaycee Field. Truman Clevenger, 21-year-old rookie, was the losing pitcher...
...learn that Americans were individuals and as hard to generalize about as Frenchmen. But she faithfully kept on generalizing. Relations between the sexes were difficult in the U.S., she feared. "Men shut themselves up in their clubs, women take refuge in theirs." Sexual frustration seemed typical, with the women frigid, the men inept. Whisky was the means of destroying inhibitions. "It's very expensive,'' a gentleman complained to her. "It takes a lot of whisky to reduce a woman to the right degree of drunkenness, and if the dose is too strong she's no longer...