Word: frosted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Nipper Nipped. In Spokane, one Jack Frost fractured his ankle while sledding...
...rolling wooded farm in Surrey lion-headed, frost-maned David Lloyd George read the telegrams that kept coming in, listened to the honors done him over the radio, found he had achieved the age of 80. To the press he explained his age: "I can't help it. It is really nothing," but the teeth-rattling quality of his career belied him. In 100 years only four other men who had suffered the slings & arrows of a Prime Minister's existence had ever reached such an age.* At 80, Lloyd George, Prime Minister through two years...
Lieut. Joseph L Lockard, the ex-private who got the D.S.M. for reporting the approach of enemy planes at Pearl Harbor, was again assigned to Honolulu-frost-bitten Honolulu, Alaska...
Finally rousing himself resolutely, he decided that this lost soul must be educated, and brought into the fold. He strode to the book-case and pulled down his copy of Jack Frost's "Harvard and Cambridge Sketch Book." After a few moments spent thumbing through the pages, he located the one he sought...
...stiff from chopping wood. Production norms were increased, apartments went unheated, electricity was turned off four days a week. At year's end the Russian children had no new toys for the New Year's celebration. There were no red-cloaked wooden replicas of Dyed Moross (Granddad Frost). There was no smoked salmon, no pickled herring, no goose, no vodka, no coffee for the grownups. But there was rejoicing. The Rodina (Motherland) had been saved for the second time in two years and now victory and peace could...