Word: frigidities
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Artillery. Republican Congressmen listened to the President in frigid silence. In Harry Truman's 43 minutes on the Speaker's rostrum, G.O.P. applause spattered forth only twice: when he promised to enforce the Taft-Hartley Act, when he urged "strong armed forces." After it was over, one newsman noted: "They had to cut a hole in the ice to get him out of the Chamber...
...same time, a combination sleet, snow, rain and windstorm began driving across 16 states of the Midwest and Northeast. It was a sneaky, sloppy storm, full of windy obscenities. Its rain turned snowy roads to frigid mush, it iced everything it touched and hexed everything it missed...
This poverty of "cause" is nowhere more vividly illustrated than inside the frigid walls of an old Japanese prison in Mukden where the Nationalists are "re-indoctrinating" or "changing the minds" of some 2,000 Communist prisoners. The camp commandant claimed that this indoctrination course changed the minds of 90% of the Communists brought in. How did he do it? First, he said, with good treatment and "a warm heart." There are also big signs painted in white-and-blue characters which cry "Honor the National Government-Obey the Generalissimo!," pamphlets explaining the three People's Principles...
...axiomatic, almost, that each day's signal will be described in the public print as "spirited," and the adjective had lost a good deal of whatever meaning it started out with. But yesterday's session actually had a kind of fire, a handy attribute since the field gets frigid after 5 o'clock...
...Newell did not know for sure, but he could make some guesses. Perhaps the ice age which chilled the earth in those remote days eliminated all climatic zones except the frigid and the temperate. Perhaps the earth's poles were in different places then, allowing a temperate zone to curve unbroken all the way from the U.S. to Peru...