Word: froze
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
This same opposition carried over into 1953, when Case entered the race for the governorship, and party leaders finally froze him out of the primary. They received a jolt, however, after Case resigned from Congress to become president of the Ford Foundation's Fund for the Republic (an organization to further the cause of civil liberties in the U.S.). In the special election to fill Case's seat, the Sixth Congressional District-which Case had carried by a record margin-went Democratic for the first time since it was remapped in 1932. Before long, G.O.P. state leaders...
Through the winter of '46, when babies were wrapped in newspapers and thousands of Berliners froze to death, the Altmanns survived (though they would not admit it even to themselves) on the proceeds of Fritz's black-marketeering, on Frances Faviell's charity and on Ursula's sex appeal. Then Fritz fell afoul of the West Berlin police and fled to the Communists. Old Herr Altmann died, and shortly afterwards, Lilli collapsed while dancing. Though her mother would not believe it, frail little Lilli had had an abortion. She died murmuring "Vova," the nickname of some...
Last week Joe McConnell, 32, father of three, was test-flying a new swept-wing Sabre, the F-86H, out of Edwards Air Force Base in California. Suddenly the controls froze; McConnell radioed the base that he would try to save the plane. When it was too late, he pushed his ejection button. He was found dead, near the ejected seat and the unopened parachute...
...will doubtless deal sternly with any real Reds or their sympathizers in the overthrown government of former President Jacobo Arbenz-if he can catch them. Of Arbenz and his Foreign Minister Guillermo Toriello, Castillo Armas said: "These men are criminals . . . responsible for torturing and killing many people." He froze the assets of the ex-President and 99 of his cohorts, and seized Arbenz' 6,700-acre showplace cotton plantation...
...Graustein plan froze each department at its "historic size," and then determined the average length of time a professor stays on the Faculty. By dividing the latter figure (an estimated 34 years) by the former, the plan determines how often a department can appoint permanent members...