Word: frigid
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...cope with an environment just as perilous as outer space. Unaided, humans can't dive much more than 10 ft. down--less than one three-thousandth of the way to the very bottom--before increasing pressure starts to build up painfully on the inner ear, sinuses and lungs. Frigid subsurface water rapidly sucks away body heat. And even the most leathery of lungs can't hold a breath for more than two or three minutes...
...Midwest and Northeast, but even that may change. Tim Lockley, an entomologist at the Agriculture Department's fire-ant lab in Gulfport, Mississippi, says the ants have now settled in the mountains of east Tennessee, where as much as 7% of the population survived the especially frigid winter of 1993-94. Says Lockley: "It's just amazing how adaptive they...
...squad, it was a chance to redeem itself for a poor performance in horrible weather two weeks ago at Brown. There, the thinclads--suffering through snow and frigid temperatures--were outrun by Dartmouth and the host Bears. Yale 70 Harvard 93 Yale 45 Harvard...
There may have been gusting, relentless winds. There may have been frigid weather...
...general, the unfriendly, frigid conditions did not affect the attitude of these residents. Surprisingly, most were very casual and friendly about speaking of their undesirable living conditions. However, FM did experience much suspicion and hostility when calling the first-year students of Matthews Hall. Every person contacted mistook us for a crank caller, and one insolent character even laughed and then hung up. Perhaps the combination of a cold dorm room and a new environment brought back comforting memories of a warm, safe home and a parent's warning "not to talk to strangers...