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Word: frigidity (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Saturday afternoon at Holder Court, club representatives and hundreds of sophomores shivering in the icy wind stand with hands thrust in pockets or holding frigid beer cans, grouping and regrouping, talking in fast desperate undertones, trying to bargain friends into the same group, unload undesirables elsewhere, bid a sad goodby (as if parting forever) to classmates joining other clubs...

Author: By John E. Mcnees, | Title: The Quest at Princeton For the Cocktail Soul | 2/21/1958 | See Source »

Independent women, the sociologists inferred, are rather frigid politically. They are not the critics, boosters or intellectuals, or the overemotional. "With only limited political loyalty, they perhaps respond to the unique candidate they feel will do them the least harm...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WOMEN: Tender & Tough | 9/9/1957 | See Source »

...present on a rotund, cup-nosed, mica-eyed man who was bustling and belly-laughing his way through Czechoslovakia last week. Xikita Khrushchev, the muzhik with the mostest. was acting like a champion who has dusted off the challenger. Overflowing with friendship and good humor, he bussed pale, frigid Czech Communist Leader Antonin Novotny on both cheeks and rode through Prague, which was tapestried with flags and banners and huge portraits of himself, on the jump seat of the reception automobile waving a panama...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA: The Quick & the Dead | 7/22/1957 | See Source »

...combined weekly readership of 30,368,000 claimed by the Mirror and Pictorial, it undoubtedly also draws on the world's deepest reserves of untapped anguish. "Nothing," says Hubble, "is too large or too small for us to undertake to help." The bureau gives advice to unwed mothers, frigid wives and suspicious husbands, wrestles with material problems ranging from rent boosts to phony reducing pills, publishes scores of pictures and vital statistics of missing persons each year so that helpful readers may help restore runaway spouses to heartbroken helpmeets. In addition to its domestic clientele, the service last year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: The Bishop of Fleet Street | 7/15/1957 | See Source »

...continent's rim, it meets the frozen seas, and ice battles ice on a titanic scale. Vast crevasses shudder open along the tortured ridges; ice rafts as large as the state of Connecticut are torn loose from the continental shelf and set floating like derelict monsters in the frigid waters...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: EXPLORATION: Compelling Continent | 12/31/1956 | See Source »

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