Word: froze
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Duke's private motor car, bearing his emblem and crest, was seized and driven through the streets, while the unsuspecting populace cheered two students dressed as the Duke and Duchess of York, then froze with horror as the "Royal Pair" thumbed their noses...
...might have died from the same cause at any time in the last 20 years. Something froze Dzerzhinsky's soul in his youth- perhaps too early and too long imprisonment-and he became imbued with the prodigious soulless energy of a machine. While imprisoned in Poland and later in Siberia, he begged permission, lest inaction drive him mad, to empty daily all his fellow prisoners' latrines. Like a famished tiger, he thirsted for the revolutionary works of Marx, but (naturally) his gaolers were adamant on that point, though obliging in the matter of latrines...
...supercharger been functioning properly, I believe it would have been very easy to gain a height greatly in excess of 40,000 feet . . . . Visibility was excellent. . . . The clock froze at about 30,000 feet. . . . I was in no danger at any time. . . . Of course I got a little chilly...
...water froze. The skaters assembled. The Burgomaster "rang the town bell" and turned a valve emptying the pool "so that no one can possibly be drowned." The ice, of course, sagged and buckled into fragments as the supporting water flowed out. Disappointed skater-voters were reported in late despatches to be warming to their work of devising a suitable epithet with which to blast their once popular Burgomaster...
...there no cure for epilepsy?" many have asked. No, none. Yet in Moscow last week a truly well-known physiologist, Professor Pavlof, froze part of a dog's brain. The dog developed epilepsy. In its veins Pavlof found a toxin which he believes to be the specific cause of the epileptic condition. He immunized a healthy beast by injecting it with the toxin. "If this works with humans," his assistant Dr. Speranski, told a concourse of physicians at Leningrad, "Pavlof has a cure for epilepsy...