Word: frigidities
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Despite a brilliant winter sun, the frigid wind is piercing. Presentation of wreaths keeps the President-hatless, dressed in a lightweight black topcoat-standing in the cold for nearly 15 minutes, and he is almost shaking by the tune he speaks briefly about the President "whose grace, compassion and earnest commitment is remembered in countless biographies, folk tales and poetry...
...pleasantly surprised. Despite the frigid and turbulent conditions--the race had been delayed till dusk--it proved an exhilirating moment. The last traces of sunlight scraped the horizon, and the sky grew pink, then azure, with the Boston skyline silhouetted in the background...
...help alleviate the suffering, the city opened two National Guard armories to refugees from heatless buildings. As many as 2,000 people-mainly mothers with young children-fled their frigid homes to sleep, eat, read, iron and pass the gloomy days on Army-issue cots. Elizabeth Martinez brought her two toddlers, ages 1 and 2, to an armory in Harlem. Said she: "They were getting sick with colds and fever all the time. My little one's hands were green and frozen from the cold. The water was frozen in the toilet bowl...
...National Weather Service says that many areas of the country may get some precipitation soon, but that the Rocky Mountain high is still expected to keep weather warm in the West and frigid in the East. The service prognosticates in meteorologese: "The 30-day outlook is for temperatures to average below seasonal normals over the Eastern third of the nation . . . Above-normal averages are indicated for areas west of the continental divide...
...there it is, packing them into Broadway's biggest house night after night and sending them out into the frigid January air with silly smiles on their faces. But then this updated version of Gilbert and Sullivan's The Pirates of Penzance has something few other musicals can boast of: absolute, unqualified, irresistible...