Word: froze
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...miners in the deep galleries of Illinois' New Orient Coal Mine No. 2 froze in their tracks, stood staring and listening in the dark. Their ears felt clogged by a sudden compression of air. Wind touched their faces. Some heard a low, distant rumbling and a rattle of doors. That was all. They began to run, heading for the 535-ft. elevator shaft which was their first hope of escape...
...narrated by the Weavers to a homely little melody, there was a logger who could eat baled hay if someone sprinkled it with whisky. One night when it froze clean through to China, he started off home without his mackinaw. At 100 below, he just buttoned his vest. But at 1,000 below, he froze solid. His sweetheart finally got tired of waiting for him, and went looking for another man who stirred his coffee with his thumb...
...outside air temperature dropped. Comte continued to circle, nose down, while his plane climbed faster and faster-like a man moving upstairs while strolling slowly downward on a racing escalator. At 11,000 ft. the rain turned to hail that tore noisily at the wings. The airspeed indicator froze, and the rate-of-climb indicator stuck at 5 ft. per second. The needle of the glider's sealed barograph reached its limit at 27,000 ft. But the plane, bucking and pitching in the turbulent winds, kept on climbing...
...should not be there, or whose hands are not clean, I shall dismiss him . . ." Then, with a series of broom-strokes, he: 1) demanded, within 48 hours, a detailed description of every committee employee's job, salary and political references; 2) promised to weed out "supernumeraries"; 3) froze all committee expenditures until a new executive committee could audit the budget; 4) declared he would serve without salary. (Boyle was paid $35,000 a year.) "May no act of mine," McKinney said evenly, "ever prove embarrassing to the President, my family, the Democratic Party or myself...
...though many more wanted to come to church, its dilapidated state kept many away. In the winter the water froze in the font and the wine in the chalice. Parents would not let their children go to catechism class because of the cold and damp. Father Simon realized that he would have to build a small chapel that could be heated in winter and have the church restored for summer services. But where would the money come from...