Word: frigidity
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While his classmates brave a frigid Cambridge February and reading-intensive sophomore tutorials, Leiby has relocated to Botswana, working at a lab and taking impromptu camping trips...
...more than half a million travelers who were stuck outside the station in the closing days of January after some of the most severe weather in decades brought China to a virtual standstill. Unusually frigid weather and heavy snowfall severed crucial transport arteries including major rail lines, highways and airports; power outages rolled across 17 provinces, forcing factories and businesses to close. The southern part of the country, which hadn't seen snow like this since 1954, was woefully unprepared. Even more northerly cities such as Shanghai, which is near the coast, were staggered by winter's wallop. At least...
...most it would have to be inflation, which hits citizens where it hurts most - in the wallet. The country's consumer price index hit an 11-year high of 6.5% in October due largely to rising food and fuel costs. The storms will almost certainly cause another spike. Frigid temperatures across 14 provinces in China are destroying vegetable crops and will "push up food prices further in January and February," says Jun Ma, chief China economist at Deutsche Bank in Hong Kong. The consequences could be serious, says Simpfendorfer of the Royal Bank of Scotland. "Even if [inflation] creeps...
...giant pit, and shot them in the back at point-blank range. Kushta, now 78, says she still replays in her mind the moment when a close friend of her mother's passed by and pleaded with her for help. Drawing her woollen scarf around her head in the frigid December morning, Kushta asks: "How could I save her? I was only a child." That night she told her parents what she had witnessed. And then, for more than six decades, she never spoke about the killings again...
...that frigid day in Hanover, Dartmouth seemed an easy pick—its star captain, Ashley Taylor ‘07, would go on to win Ivy Player of the Year honors, and Harvard had recorded only two wins in its non-conference schedule. But the Crimson got a then-career-high 22 points from gutsy senior Lindsay Hallion, who shook off illness to lead Harvard to a come-from-behind 71-68 victory that jump-started its run to the league title...