Word: frostes
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...morning, Red tankmen chipped ice off the treads and gun barrels. Their breath was cotton-thick in the chill air; their polushubki (half-coats) were stiff with frost. The cold had come late. But now, in some sectors, this was the harshest winter in a century...
Busiest Christmas was probably Dick Lauterbach's in snow-covered Moscow. Christmas Eve there was a get-together for the little American colony-Christmas Day he played Father Frost by distributing precious American soap to the hotel staff-and next day he impersonated Ambassador Harriman in the annual Moscow correspondents' show...
...Coop, sales of earmuffs, woolen stockings, and gloves have tripled, while underwear remained steady. Earmuffs, scarce because they contain steel, threatened to sell out soon if the frost continues to bite students' ears...
...early night was carpeted with clouds. Beneath, within and over them, flak burst in fitful fire. It was bitter cold. The big, dark planes were sheathed in frost; the men inside them huddled freezing over instruments and guns. The sky was crowded with the ghostly bombers, growling toward Berlin...
...clock the sirens sounded. Over the heart of Nazi Germany, the frost-sheathed bombers opened their bomb bays...