Word: frigidity
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Police rescued the husband and eight-year-old child of an MIT professor from the Charles River's frigid waters last night after their car plunged from Soldier's Field Road into the river...
...months ago, 15 scientists flew into McMurdo Station, Antarctica, to investigate a mystery: What causes a thinning in atmospheric ozone above the frigid continent, a phenomenon that has peaked each October since it was first observed in 1983? It was hardly an academic question; the ozone layer is a blanket of oxygen molecules that protects the earth's surface from the sun's harmful ultraviolet radiation, a form of light just beyond the human range of vision. Speculation on the reason for these "holes" has ranged from weather patterns and solar activity to the action of man-made chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs...
...show a woman who held hands with her husband in White House receiving lines when she thought no one was looking, who escaped the claustrophobic atmosphere of the White House by occasionally sneaking out after dinner to stroll the streets of downtown Washington. Rather than complain about the frigid air conditioning in King Faisal's guesthouse on a visit to Saudi Arabia, Julie writes, her mother spent the night trying to keep warm by huddling in a marble bathtub filled with bedding...
...desert. The only trees are dwarf willows one and two inches high." The sparse growth surrounding the half square mile of fallen trees is not surprising: the location is Axel Heiberg Island, less than 700 miles from the North Pole in the Canadian Arctic, an arid, frigid region hardly conducive to the growth of any vegetation, let alone large trees. Then how did a forest thrive? The answer, says Basinger, is that the stumps and logs are 45 million years old, remnants of trees that grew when Axel Heiberg Island -- and the world -- was much warmer...
Ballard, from the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, joined Navigator Martin Bowen and Pilot Ralph Hollis in the research submersible Alvin as it began a 2 1/2-hour descent from the mother ship Atlantis II to the bottom of the frigid North Atlantic. It was the first of twelve dives planned for the current mission, designed to survey the Titanic while testing new imaging equipment. As they neared the sea floor, Ballard said, "we came in on a wall of black steel. It seemed endless in all directions." Alvin skirted the Titanic's knife-edge bow, where the great liner's name...