Word: froze
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...this production, as soon as Hermione began her flirtation, the lights, formerly white, flashed to a muted blue. Hermione and Polixenes froze in their mutual endearments, and Leontes spoke his lines with deliberate, careful and muted rage...
...back. Over the bridge to Washington from Virginia, where Tinsley lived when that was his habit, the wind blew like hell and the name placard flapped around, twisting and turning. It gave up on that after a while and then just hung there doing nothing at all. And I froze on that bridge...
...colleagues at NIH went back to an old and seemingly cold trail. In 1952-54, a study was made of hemophilia patients who contracted serum hepatitis from injections of an infected blood-clotting factor. The researchers took weekly blood samples but did not find the culprit; so they deep-froze the samples and stored them. In 1968 the 15-year-old samples were thawed out and tested for the Australia antigen. The viruslike particle was found in the blood of 46 (or 74%) of the patients...
...Some genuinely heroic acts, on the other hand, are forced simply by the nature of the war. The Rev. Jerry Autry, 28, a Baptist chaplain from Princeton, S.C., once landed near a Viet Cong village with a platoon of green soldiers commanded by an equally green lieutenant. When they froze, Autry rallied them and led the charge. Autry carries a weapon only because he has to. Like many chaplains who go on patrols or fly on combat sorties with airborne troops, he has discovered that his unarmed presence can make the men jittery...
...increase, second in four months, brought the rate to its highest level since the 1929 crash. To make money more scarce as well as more costly, the board also increased the amount of cash that banks are required to keep in reserve. In effect, the board "froze" some $650 million in lendable funds, which translates into a withdrawal of more than $2 billion in credit from the economy...