Word: frigidity
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...that the house collapsed when fire crews removed the second floor in an attempt to prevent the walls from caving in. Harvard has not determined the extent of the damage, Wrinn said, and has not decided what it will do with the property. The cold temperature—a frigid 12 degrees—also affected the operation, reported Gialanis. Two firemen were sent to Mt. Auburn hospital after slipping on the ice. The injuries were not life-threatening, but will put the firefighters out of commission for weeks. Neighbors expressed shock at the tragedy...
...accident in China's frigid, northeastern industrial belt was well covered in the local and national media, as TV news aired dramatic footage. Officials moved fast and evacuated roughly 40,000 residents living near the plant. At midnight, 10 hours after the blasts, the vice party secretary of the plant, which is owned by New York Stock Exchange-listed PetroChina Co., announced that people shouldn't worry about the orange cloud. "The explosion," he said, "did not cause toxic air pollution...
India and Pakistan are not currently at war, but last year, nationals representing each country got the chance to duke it out—on television. Participants representing each country competed in extreme sports challenges like diving into frigid harbors and battling packs of queen bees...
...Taipei, challenges included diving into the frigid Taipei harbor, swimming out 200 meters, climbing a rope, and “gladiator-combating” another contestant. Another dare involved shimmying out on a 10-meter metal pole off a 30-story building above a freeway to retrieve a flag...
...hottest sex symbols in current cinema. The scenes play like “Unfaithful” remade by Michael Bay. As always, Aniston simply lets her hair do the acting. Her oh-so-wide emotional range suggests she’s too much of a frigid bitch to imagine that she’d actually be sexually deviant. Perhaps why Mr. Pitt left her for Angelina…The constant, predictable pitfalls of the underdeveloped characters invoke no real audience sympathies or concern other than one for Owen himself, who was so unfortunate as to be in this movie rather...