Word: froze
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Shaw's Collegiate Chorale, and afterwards he appeared in some soldier shows. But a year of infantry fighting overseas and six months of paralysis from bullet wounds shattered his stage poise. His voice was as lusty as ever, but audiences gave him the heebie-jeebies and a spotlight froze him stiff...
G.I.s and Tommies at last took over their respective billets, Red Armymen withdrew into the Russian zone, together with wagonloads of German furniture and other souvenirs. At week's end U.S. and British officials froze civilians in their zones so that there could be no large-scale emigration of civilians from the Russian zone...
...Alan with all four limbs amputated. One other Army man, a pilot, has lost parts of four limbs but not as a result of wounds: he froze both hands & feet after a plane crash in New England...
General Dwight D. Eisenhower was so stirred that he forthwith invited Prime Minister Winston Churchill to send a British Parliamentary delegation to see Buchenwald. With them came a group of American Congressmen touring Britain. The visitors froze with horror. Said Sir Henry Morris-Jones: "It beggars description." Said Representative Gordon Canfield: "This is barbarism." Others would soon be coming to see as well...
...Froze all German assets in Switzerland, including those held by Swiss dummies...