Word: froze
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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P.A.C. was so restrained it was barely audible. Most A.F.L. leaders simply froze. The only labor leader who made any noise was labor's Great Gargoyle, John L. Lewis, who threatened a miners' walkout (see Labor...
...Kurt Lange and David Weiner of the New York Medical College got the idea while studying blood circulation by means of fluorescein, a tracer dye which, injected into the blood, flows freely with it and glows yellow-green under long-wave ultraviolet light. When they froze rabbit tissues (and later that of human volunteers) they found that after a time the whole frozen area glowed brightly, indicating blood concentration...
...tone of cold condescension often froze into icy contempt. His was the old, impenetrably murky defense about the double game. Why had he supported Munich? "Because we were not ready." Why had he accepted the Foreign Affairs portfolio in Pétain's Cabinet? "I intended . . . to retain my sympathies for the Allies and to help them secretly...
...Princeton's "matinee-idol" professor of politics, had only the enthusiasm. Though he is included as a "great teacher," the former student who describes him writes that pupils were inspired by Wilson's intellect but repelled by his intellectuality. Because he knew all the answers, he froze most of his listeners...
...cramps. I get rheumatism. I froze my ear. I shiver night & day. I [have to] stay near the stove to steam...