Word: froze
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Froze all Rumanian funds in the U. S. (estimate: $100,000,000) after German troops entered the country...
...trade, photography. Then the Geological Survey sent him to explore and photograph the unknown Yellowstone. For the Survey, too, he photographed the cliff dwellings of Mesa Verde. To study and photograph railroads he got himself sent around the world, crisscrossed Europe, northern Africa, southern Asia, almost circumnavigated Australia, almost froze to death on a winter journey from Vladivostok to Moscow. Quieter now, he paints massive murals of the western mountains when he isn't tossing off smaller oils...
Fortnight ago, the wheat markets alternately boiled and froze with rumors. The spring wheat crop in a dozen granger States was almost ready to harvest. It was the season of the private guesstimators, who multiply rainfall by wind damage, divide by brigades of bugs, and sometimes pull figures out of the air, vie with each other in predicting the size of the crop. Meanwhile agents of the U. S. Crop Reporting Board were scouting, sampling and interviewing throughout the wheat belt, getting the cold dope from the farms. Last week, behind locked and guarded doors in Washington, the Board added...
...Alcazar fall in the Spanish Civil War. He wrote how the Finnish cold froze cigaret butts between puffs...
WASHINGTON -- President Roosevelt, in an unprecedented move tonight froze all balances and foreign exchange transactions in this country involving Norway Denmark, or their nationals to prevent their withdrawal under German pressure...