Word: froze
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...World War II the corporation voluntarily froze diamond prices at prewar levels, although industrial users grumbled that upgrading of poor stones had actually upped prices. The Trading Company paid as little attention to this as to any complaints from buyers who do not like its rules. Customers pay in advance, take title to the stones in London. Industrial users often buy stones unseen, have them mailed to them from London...
...Castle, Ind., Hiram Dickerson, 72, a cemetery caretaker, lay down to sleep, froze to death...
...school even remotely suggestive of Dickens' wretched Dotheboys Hall. Until the recent cold wave hit, few people in Lenox knew what was really going on inside the 44-room onetime private mansion which housed the tony ($1,400 a year) Duncan School for Boys. Then the school pipes froze and a plumber was called...
...temperature went down to 9° above zero. When the blizzards stopped, the wind blew and the snow drifted. Water froze in canteens ; motorized troops on the move built fires on the steel bottoms of their trucks. In the dark mornings the doughboys climbed out of their foxholes, sleepless, stiff-legged and red-eyed, to fight another day. The wounded died where they fell unless they were quickly picked up. The medics kept their morphine Syrettes under their armpits to prevent congealing...
...past. The strongest male among them considered that all the women belonged to him, embraced them openly and frequently with the result that the weaker males were driven to sly and secret amours. These ape-men killed small animals, often went hungry, gorged themselves when they had food, froze in the winter, were among the earth's most hunted and vulnerable creatures...