Word: froze
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Happy Birthday. As snow sifted down and rain froze into sleet, no driver seemed to enjoy the cross-country competition more than Sheila. Just as she left Munich, word was passed that it was her 33rd birthday, and for the next two days Rally officials celebrated. At the Hamburg control point, Germans rose to a man and broke into a gutteral version of "Happy Birthday to You." On the Dutch border, smiling customs guards waved her steel-grey Sunbeam across the frontier. All along the way well-wishers gave her flowers, which she tossed into the rear seat where...
...effort to keep living costs down, the government froze rents after the war. A comfortable four-room apartment, if the owner lived in it before the war, is pegged at about $12 a month; he often sublets two or three rooms for $30 a month each and pockets $60 to $90 without lifting a finger. The landlord, getting only the official $12 a month, cannot afford to pay taxes and keep up repairs. Result: no repairs are made, and many apartment buildings are slowly rotting away...
...Friday night, the sophomores on the team, Ike Canty, Neil Muncaster, Phil Haughey, Lou Lowenfels, and senior Perry, put on a late second half drive to cut a Syracuse 20-point lead down to five but the Orange successfully froze the ball in the last three minutes. Sacks with 25 points was the team's high scorer. Canty...
...Emily Carr of youth was transformed into a dumpy, frumpy, acidulous old maid. She would plod the staid streets of Victoria with a monkey on her shoulder and a mangy sheep dog at her heels, pushing a baby carriage full of groceries, while neighbors sneered, smirked, winced, howled or froze with disdain...
Alarmed by a buzzer or a flash of light, possums played possum for an average of two minutes, six seconds. Then Dr. Lowenbach and Dr. John Andrews Ritchie gave the marsupials standard electric-shock treatments. After ten doses the possums, when alarmed, froze for an average of only eight seconds. Some did not freeze at all, and actually "came out fighting" when a light flashed on them...