Word: frosts
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...balance of the Cold War. Once again, a foreign dictator had seemingly misread the character of the U.S. and of a U.S. President. At Vienna and later, Khrushchev had sized up Kennedy as a weakling, given to strong talk and timorous action. The U.S. itself, he told Poet Robert Frost, was "too liberal to fight." Now, in the Caribbean, he intended to prove his point. And Berlin would surely come next...
...produced a trench 6 ft. wide, 27 ft. long and 7 ft. deep. Hultin came across several bare skeletons before he hit pay dirt: the well-preserved body of a 30-year-old woman so obese that her fat had insulated her organs from the effects of decades of frost and thaw. He took both lungs, sliced them into thin strips and carefully packed them for shipment. Hultin named the body "Lucy," a nod to the prehistoric Lucy who shed so much light on human origins...
...Christmas-themed episodes of regular shows crowd the schedule, it's almost impossible to find programs that actually treat the event supposedly being celebrated--the birth of Jesus Christ. Of course, the secularization of Christmas is a process that is already far along, and by serving up Jack Frost and chestnuts, TV is simply satisfying the tastes of its viewers. Still, it is remarkable that of the dozens of shows created especially for this Christmas season, the one that seems to have the most religious content is A&E's Mysteries of the Bible: The Miracle of Chanukah...
...Lincoln, Neb., Ahman Green and Joel Mackovica each topped 100 yards rushing--Mackovica had three TDs--and Scott Frost ran for one score and threw for another as Tom Osborne reached 250 wins quicker than any other coach...
...name "Fire and Ice" springs not from the famous Robert Frost poem but from the contrast between the heat of the grill-which can reach temperatures of up to 450 degrees Farenheit-and the chilled drinks offered...