Word: frigidities
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...doubt stunned by the miserably frigid weather, the Crimson started with a whimper against B.U. as the hardy Terriers jumped out to a quick 4-0 lead. But Peter Hilton's try and a conversion by Dave Albala gave Harvard the lead...
...world perennially short of food might not be able to look to America to ease its hunger. Domestic food prices seemed certain to increase, job layoffs could follow as water-and hydroelectric-hungry industries are forced to reduce their operations. Added to the effects of the East's frigid winter, the drought could pose new dangers of inflation and unemployment, threatening President Carter's economic stimulus and budget-balancing goals...
...into most of West Virginia, parts of Ohio and the northeastern tip of Kentucky. Much of that region lies beneath a blanket of snow that is six inches or more thick. Says Herb Lieb, a spokesman for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration: "It's like a great, frigid lake, ready to run during a sudden thaw. We could have the makings of some real flood disasters...
...full damage to the orange crop will not be known for several weeks. Unlike much of the frigid U.S., Florida's crop growers would actually like the chilly weather to continue. A sudden flood of warm sunshine would accelerate the rotting of damaged fruit and increase the loss far beyond the $125 million already estimated. "All we need is a few days in the 80s," says Grower Karst, "and then you'll see a real disaster...
Barry dispels several myths about Sand and these relationships. While earlier biographers and critics claimed that she was a frigid nymphomaniac, always seeking and never finding physical satisfaction, except perhaps in her long-term, probably lesbian affair with Marie Dorval, Barry uses Sand's letters and journal entries to show this was far from the case. Nor, Barry proves, was Sand neurotically seeking to be the "male" in her heterosexual relationships. Some of her lovers--including consumptive Chopin--were "weak", younger and easily dominated. But Sand was also capable of being pathetically submissive, promising one brutal lover, on the verge...