Word: frigidity
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While Iceland may be frigid on the outside, it's molten lava on the inside. The most exciting evidence of the heat within is provided by the island's many geysers. Geysir, the original blowhole from which all others get their name, now lies dormant on a grassy slope below Bjarnfell Mountain, 120 km east of Reykjavik. But Geysir's neighbor, Strokkur, is positively explosive; thousands flock yearly to watch it fire off a dazzling 30-m spout of scalding water every few minutes. Icelanders take full advantage of their country's volcanic potential: when the mercury drops, they warm...
Finally content that I have wasted enough natural resources for a night, I abandon the fire and step into the frigid night, where the sky is as crowded as it is quiet. I look for the new constellations I have learned. I take in the extraordinary silence and solitude...
Getting invited, as it turned out, wasn't the same as being welcome. While a handful of association members supported the Hemings' inclusion, most did not. In 2002, the group voted 74 to 6 to deny them full membership. The already strained relations turned decidedly frigid last year when the association restricted the number of Hemings allowed to attend its reunion and attempted to bar them from setting foot inside the graveyard at Monticello. Paulie Abeles, the wife of the association's president at the time, even admitted to having secretly infiltrated an online discussion group that the Hemings...
...place ought to be dynamic, and Saturn is. Winds blow at more than 1,100 m.p.h. at the equator-the strongest gusts on any planet in the solar system-and helium rain is thought to fall out of the clouds. Temperatures at the cloud tops are a frigid -218ºF...
...stereotypical frat boy trying to recreate his natural environment at frigid Harvard. Rather, it turns out that Corker’s attempts to improve the College’s social scene are motivated by a scholar-like devotion to the subject of “The Harvard Party...