Word: froze
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Though their riveted M35 sustained some shell hits, no rivets bounced about inside. Main fault in the tanks: an incendiary bullet, stuck in the pencil-thin crevice between the revolving turret and hull, froze the turret tight. The tankers unfroze the turret with an acetylene torch. (This defect has been corrected in the newer M-45, which have a collar over the crevice...
This Sunday afternoon the U.S. will hear the proof of his assertion, but the proof is already old: Blood flowed like water and froze like ice on the steps of Petrograd's Winter Palace. Over bodies and frozen blood the Red Guards swept through the barricaded doors. By the time the final echoes of that historic assault had died, the last vestiges of Russia's old order had (in the Bolshevik phrase) been thrown on "the garbage heap of history." Russia of the Tsars, of Byzantine ritual, of mad monks and Cossack whips, Russia of fatalistic chaos...
...Government action as the freeze in the cost of living. Wheat, corn, rye and cotton were all phony prices in the early part of the year, were supported by political loans at 85% of a zooming "parity" and the hope of bigger loans to come. When the Administration froze parity (by freezing other prices), and spread the word that it would not boost loans still higher, speculators ducked out of those commodities in which the Government is holding huge surpluses off the market...
...lakes and morasses. . . . One bad report followed another. . . . In the south the Russians were in our rear; and in the center the Russians were in our rear; and in the north the Russians were in our rear. Guerrillas blew up our railways and ambushed our supplies. Our troops nearly froze to death in the grim cold...
Latest victim of the war are the music stores, for on April 22 the government froze 70 per cent of the shellae vital to the production of phonograph records. Now record producers insist that dealers turn in one used record for every three new ones they obtain, and music stores feel that soon they will have to ask customers to bring in old recordings in exchange for new purchases. Radio manufacture also was stopped in April, but the most acute shortage in this connection is of skilled repairmen, many of whom have joined the Army Signal Corps...