Word: froze
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...came out looking suspiciously like "Kbacc" which, he was told was a Russian home brew. Vag wondered vaguely whether Russians liked Scotch and sodas, or had a phrase for "bottoms up." "EE vwi!" the instructor screamed as he bounded from his chair and bore down threateningly on Vag. Vag froze in his seat and searched frankly for the word. "Da," he managed to utter tentatively, and then, when no lightning struck, "Da, da, da, da" he repeated enthusiastically, looking awfully intelligent about the whole matter, while the instructor waved his arms madly, burbled, and made other strenuous noises...
...line to road depots before the thaw. On March 9, they tumbled off the train at dingy Dawson Creek station, staked stiff canvas tents under the northern lights. "Jeez, it was so cold," a Bronx private remarked, "that every time we had hot stew for chow, the goddam stuff froze before we could eat." Behind the troops came trucks, road machinery, supplies, gas, diesel fuel and planks from torn-down CCC camps...
...Russians saw their danger well (see col. 1). They hoped that the Red Army would protract the game, keep the Germans from reaching the Volga until winter froze the stakes. Said Pravda: "Every minute shows that the Germans are gambling their entire fortune on the present campaign...
When OPA and Metals Reserve Co. offered a 5? premium over and above the 12? ceiling for increased copper production last winter they deliberately set the base quota on which no premium will be paid so high that they not only froze out the big three (Anaconda, Kennecott and Phelps Dodge, which produce 85% of U.S. copper) but also froze out all but one of the other 15 companies which with the big three produce 98½% of U.S. total...
...checks in Alaska are no longer settled with bags of Klondike gold, but pennies are still so scarce in the Territory that last week Leon Henderson had to modify his general maximum price order, froze Alaskan prices to the nearest nickel instead of the nearest cent...