Word: frigid
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Girls who do not get along with their fathers are likely to grow up sexually frigid, and when they marry they are candidates for indigestion and gallstones. Moreover, their husbands will probably take to drink or develop ulcers. These conclusions are reported by a Scottish physician in the eminent British Lancet. A painstaking Glasgow diagnostician, Dr. G. Gladstone Robertson did not go looking for patients to fit a prefabricated theory. Instead, he felt obliged to adopt the psychosomatic approach as the only way to explain the illnesses of hundreds of patients...
Eventually, Dr. Robertson went over his records of 300 cases of "severe flatulent dyspepsia" and found only one man and three unmarried women. Of the married women in his records, all but six were frigid. One group of 128 had enjoyed marriage at first but then developed frigidity, often after having "too many" children. The larger group of 162 had been frigid all their adult lives. Dr. Robertson found that these were the women who as girls had hated a domineering or drunken father, and had clung to mother. As adults, five-sixths of them were still clutching mother...
...composer knew what he wanted. For five years he had been haunted by a movie, Scott of the Antarctic, for which he did the musical score, and he set out to re-create its frigid atmosphere in a symphony. He used a few of his themes from Scott-whales go lolloping by in the woodwinds, penguins waddle in the brass -plus the eerie sound of wordless women's voices. For the first time in his career he experimented with a whistling wind machine and a clanging vibraphone...
Cold fog, followed by freezing rain and falling temperature, reduced front-line fighting last week to its lowest scale since early October. On the frigid ridges of the central front, where the rain had put a glazed crust on four inches of fresh snow, the temperature dropped to 3° below zero. Enemy patrols were observed in white-clad camouflage. In a pre-dawn snowstorm, the Reds captured some frozen foxholes near "Old Baldy," slipped away after trading machine-gun fire with the allies for an hour...
...first human patient on whom they operated (after tests on animals) died because her heart drew in air. Judith was Hahnemann's second patient. A Minneapolis team operated successfully on a five-year-old girl, chilled in a blanket laced with coils containing frigid alcohol. Last week Dr. Bailey did his third operation, chilling a year-old baby in a blanket...