Word: frigidities
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...work with him all day, drafting an emergency-powers law much more limited in scope than had previously been asked. Partial victory came when the Chamber Finance Committee approved the text. Then Premier Laval went straight to the Chamber at 6 p. m., paid no heed to his frigid reception without cheers, asked the suspicious Deputies to approve a bill of one single article reading thus...
...regards Stillman Infirmary, the conditions are equally appalling. The building and equipment are obsolete. The building is drafty. In periods of epidemics it is often overtaxed. A long ride through frigid corridors is necessary to reach the X-ray machine. The lack of proper shower and bathroom equipment is another source of annoyance to patients. Indifferent or incompetent supervision often results in students with contagious diseases being confined in wards with others who are susceptible to affliction...
...caused her pertly to warn Joseph Stalin and other virile Russians: "Abortions make women nervous. It is common knowledge that the practice of abortion, if it becomes a habit, can do considerable harm to woman's sex life. Neuroses may develop and these in turn may result in frigidity. In this country woman is no longer economically dependent on man. If she becomes frigid, she will not be dependent on him in any other way and, in fact, will no longer be interested in him. Yet there is an honesty and lack of hypocrisy about the Soviet policy with...
...penetrates the frigid reserve of Silas, the occupant of the horseless carriage, will be told of the motorboat engine that makes it go, of the Zeppelin radiator, of the amazing economy of gasoline, and while the credulous Freshman and the harried upper classman may take him at his word, the sharp-eyed graduate student who is versed in the traditions of Cambridge notes the square area on the doors, whence a plate has been removed, and at once remembers the true story of the car's past life, and discounts Silas' mad ravings for cobwebs and moontalk...
...thick that relatively few whaling expeditions bucked the pack, he found no less than 32 vessels at work. The Ross Sea whaling fleet is composed of big factory ships, each mothering a flock of chasers, each about the size of a small tugboat. The chasers scour the frigid waters until they spy a spouting whale, sneak up on it and let fly a harpoon bomb from a cannon. After the dead whale is pulled to the surface, it is inflated with air pumps, towed to the factory ship...