Word: frigidity
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...hopelessly optimistic in this thinking. But at the same time, frigid temperatures may have provided just the push needed to get would-be couples past their gripping fear of contact. Harvard singles have a tough lot, and for their sake, I would gladly suffer a few more days of cold...
Besides the defensive play, Wheaton was also pleased by his team’s ability to adapt to a new environment. Harvard pulled off a victory, despite traveling to another school, play on a new surface in frigid temperatures, all on a weekday night...
...ultimately means taking ground inch by inch. In Korea and Vietnam the infantry accounted for only 4% of troops in the theater but more than 80% of those killed in battle. It took Perez nearly three years--along with a threat to quit and a pledge to serve at frigid Fort Drum in upstate New York for up to six years--to prevail. On Valentine's Day of 2000 he reported for training at Fort Benning...
Finally, there's a cosmic dimension to these bugs. So-called exobiologists and astrobiologists, who speculate about life beyond Earth, have long assumed that liquid water is a minimum requirement for existence. But if that water can range from frigid to boiling, and if burial underground isn't a problem, then it's not crazy to think that life exists in the permafrost beneath the surface of Mars, or in the ice-capped ocean that may encircle Jupiter's moon Europa, or in the seas that may exist on Saturn's moon Titan. Indeed, NASA considers extremophiles so relevant...
...Over the years, the Tricolores had treated their northern neighbors like kid brothers, regularly slapping them around. But what the world hadn't realized is that during World Cup qualifying, the balance of power had shifted. The U.S. forced the Mexicans to play a qualifier in Columbus, Ohio, in frigid temperatures?far from the warmth of Los Angeles, the usual site, where 90,000 fans, most of them Mexican, would turn a U.S. home game into an away contest. The U.S. rocked the chilly Mexicans, 2-0. In the knockout round of the Cup, the Yanks repeated the performance, absorbing...