Word: froze
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...clock one morning Russian soldiers knocked at the door, and told me we had one hour to pack our things and leave. They took us to Pinsk and loaded us into boxcars-60 to a car." As the slow train moved through the Russian winter, five babies froze to death. Their mothers pushed them out into the snow...
...wanted to cry: 'But I loved your country! I wanted to write, to explain it to the world!' The words froze. He wouldn't permit them, nor would he understand them." The commissar rose to pronounce judgment: Journalist Strong was to be expelled for spying. "I tried once more to protest that I wasn't a spy ... He said, 'Dismissed,' very curtly, and I went...
...break came with 43 seconds to play: a free throw for the Dons. It looped through. The Dons froze the ball, iced the 1949 National Invitation Championship, 48-47. Most valuable player of the tournament (picked by N.I.T. judges): San Francisco's Lofgran...
...Bellboy spurt, climaxed by Mike Post' foul shot, brought the score to 36 all at the end of the regular game. Two foul shots by Goldsmith and one by John Altrocchi finally gave Lowell the lead in the overtime period, and the Bellboys successfully froze the ball in the last minute and a half...
...there is always the danger of an attack of soroche-high-altitude sickness. With advice from Mottet, who had climbed the peak once before, Hackett skirted the traps until almost to the goal. Then the witches' wind that circles the summit caught him full blast and froze the fingers of his right hand...