Word: froze
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...citizens pumped, paddled, dug, abandoned their automobiles, froze, chased their hats, lit candles, ran for their lives and occasionally died as some of the foulest weather in history swept the nation from coast to coast...
Frozen Tears. Even if every U.S. soldier had received his winter issue before the first nip of cold, there would have been suffering. Units of the 7th Division, which had winter clothing, were fighting last week in 20-below-zero cold. The cold brought tears which froze on the men's faces. After a U.S. attack near the Manchurian border, medical officers reported as many casualties from cold as from enemy action. Only quick work by litter teams prevented those wounded by gunfire from freezing to death...
...That night we slept in a gully. At 4 a.m. I woke up and got everybody else up we could find, as it was about 23 degrees and we were afraid we would freeze. We couldn't find five men and I am afraid they froze to death...
...clear. Villagers below could now see tiny lights still moving up and up along the mountain. Lacking radios and fortified with grog, the St. Gervais party was pushing on. They spent the night in a refuge hut. Next morning at 6 they started climbing again. One of the climbers froze his foot and went back under protest. "By noon," said Viallet later, "we had dug through snow up to our chests across the corridor of avalanches . . . We drank grog. That's very important on the mountain in winter. By 4 o'clock we reached another shelter. There...
Late Thaw. California orange growers are still out in the cold, because their production costs are too high to compete. But California lemon growers, who raise half the world's supply (lemons don't grow well in Florida), have started to cash in. This year the industry froze 2,000,000 gallons of lemon juice, expects to put up 10 million gallons next year...