Word: froze
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Gennadi Khomyakov, a veteran of the "isolator" camp on the Solovetski Islands. Standard punishment in wintertime was to send prisoners barefoot down 273 ice-covered steps to haul water from a frozen lake; their feet usually froze into icy stumps . . . and most of the victims died. One crazed fellow prisoner, to escape the logging detail, cut off one finger but was sent back to work. Losing his head completely, he chopped off his entire left hand, and collapsed unconscious. He was later shot for "malicious shirking of work...
...most cattlemen, feeding was only one of many trying problems. On the plains there was hay in plenty-if it could be gotten to the herd. But cattle (which, unlike sheep, refuse to eat snow) were dying of thirst as well as hunger. The cold froze their eyes, feet, scrota and udders. It also threatened next year's stock-weakened cows and ewes would be unable to produce calves and lambs...
...Eighty-year-old Scott Pillsbury took advantage of mild weather at Scarborough, Me., hurried to a public cemetery to dig his grave before the ground froze. He explained that he expected to die soon, and disapproved of the local custom of storing bodies through winter months and burying them in the spring...
...Anderson's third line that was stymied for a full minute at mid-ice while three clever BC skaters froze the puck completely to kill a penalty, and it was the Bill Allen-Al Key second defense that formed the weakest unit...
...norther,"* the season's first. Soon screaming winds, as high as 80 miles an hour, lashed the wheatfields with blinding snow and churned up great white drifts. Transcontinental trains ground to a halt; ice-sheathed communication lines sagged and snapped. Thousands of grubbing cattle, trapped in the snow, froze to death on the hoof...