Word: frostbitten
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...from Washington, via air-conditioned van, to Manhattan, where she went on view for 3½ weeks at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Despite rain, slush and bone-cracking cold, a crowd of 23,872 queued up in three-block-long lines on the first day to make frostbitten obeisance before the lady with the greenish face in her bulletproof, heat-and-humidity-controlled shrine...
Gerd Uner was sent back to Munich for amputation of several frostbitten toes. Rainer Kauschke was suffering from an "acute rheumatic disorder." Team Lead er Siegert complained of uncontrollable trembling in his arms and feet. It will never be so hard again, said one Italian alpinist. "The Germans blazed the vertical trail-and their pitons are still in the rock. This summer, you will see climbers do the same thing in a single...
Wandering through a bitter snowstorm, the professor is urged by a young girl to join her in escaping. The professor is dying in the cold but he refuses. His last words: "Do you suppose that by dragging me across the frontier with your frostbitten, dirty hands you are atoning for anything? . . . Nothing can be changed, my young lady, nothing. The dead cannot be resurrected; wounds only appear to be healed. The main thing is to lead an honest life...
...Requiem set last week-in the locker-room area under the grandstands at Randalls Island stadium-Gleason was finding out that moviemaking on location can be spartan. Against freezing temperatures, heat came from charcoal briquettes in braziers. Cast and crew were breathing contrails. Gleason sat, like a huge frostbitten gourd, in a camp chair labeled THE GREAT...
...sealskin thongs and their own boots. The first to go were the very weak and the very strong. The weak simply gave up; the strong overtaxed themselves in trying to save all. One man was brought back from a hunt with his eyelids frozen tight; he was so badly frostbitten that his fingers and feet fell off. Dependable Canadian-born Sergeant George Rice died of exhaustion in a three-day blizzard...