Word: froze
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This was the first ripple to disturb the smooth flow of the tea trade since 1942, when the Japanese overran 35% of the world's sources. Tea still came from India and Ceylon. Though supply was short, the Allies froze prices at the 1942 level (while coffee prices rose 68%, cocoa...
...only to vote the straight Republican ticket, to pick up supplies and to get their old-age pension checks. The checks were one modern convenience to which Gil had no objection. With them, he and Maggie got along fine until the winter of 1946. Then they fell sick, almost froze to death, and were taken by a rescue party to a hospital at Suffern. When they got well, they were sent to the Rockland County poor farm...
Once, as the frightful sound bellowed louder, White's fingers froze to the control valve. He forgot what he was doing, or why. So did all the others present. For five minutes they stood paralyzed until an outsider ran in and broke the clinch...
With no fuss, the Russian stepped up to a youngish man with a briefcase under his arm and a dirty brown felt hat pulled over his ears, and commanded: "Eeh, Du! Komm!" The German froze, casting a terrified glance over his shoulder at the frightened stream of men & women who were trying not to see or hear. The Russian waved his Tommy gun and curled his lip. "Komm!" He pushed his petrified recruit roughly into the gutter...
...days of mental and physical violence, the tattered remnant of U.A.W. Local 248 returned to work at the Allis-Chalmers Manufacturing Co. plant near Milwaukee, without having won any of its demands. Cried the local's president, Robert Buse: "The company expected us to hold out until hell froze over. This is a surprise move-a tactic they did not expect...