Word: frostbitten
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...farmers and thus influence U.S. elections, was beginning to find out that farmers are not easy to please. Ever since he offered his plan, which would promise fanners high selling prices and consumers cheaper food (TIME, April 18), Brannan's popularity with farm organizations has been frostbitten...
...Every [few] days . . . NKVD men would burst in at night and carry out a most careful examination of the cell and of my person [including] the long beard which had grown during my imprisonment and which was stiff from pus that had run into it from my frostbitten face. I was kicked and beaten on these occasions...
Taken to the Casualty Hospital in Washington, Welles soon recovered consciousness, said he could not remember what had happened. He was suffering from exposure and frostbitten fingers and toes...
...hospital at Edmonton, doctors treated his skull fracture, set his shattered arm, put him under a metal-framed tent to keep the bed clothing off his frostbitten feet and knees. To his father (also an aviator), who had flown in from Washington, dauntless little Mike told what had happened...
...polar cold prevailed, and the air was thick with fog of the texture of a polar bear's pelt. Out of these unfathomable, and therefore vast, spaces of frozen fur, of white and yellow, there showed occasionally a horse's teeth or glaring eyes, or a frostbitten or port-nipped military face, conjured up out of the gloom and darkness, like a materialization at a seance. . . . Men shouted, sergeants commanded; bugles every now and then indulged in a brazen, idiot bray...