Word: froze
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Gardner, who spent Christmas in 1974 climbing and camping in the White Mountains, related a story about people who built a similar cabin improperly and were crushed when the ground froze and the cabin collapsed...
...woman sat on the ground with her head in her hands; a policeman tried to keep things moving. The tow truck creaked as it dragged the two cars out of each other's steel embrace, but the people made no sound. An insistent flash from the policeman's cruiser froze the image in blue once every second...
Because the University could not fully control the heat in several of the older Houses, pipes froze and burst, causing over $50,000 worth of damage. Savings on fuel costs were almost completely offset by the costs of the repairs...
...froze. My adam's apple beat wildly against a seldom-worn and imperfectly-tied tie: "Well, sir, it's like some people read historical novels, they want to live in the past--I want to live in the future." I was sliding through it, wiping Vaseline on the pants leg of my best double-knits. The interviewer fixed me with a stern, approving smile, and I smiled back just as firmly behind set lips, because on important mornings you can forget to brush your teeth, and I wasn't taking any chances. And it came to pass that I entered...
...referendum last year, San Franciscans voted 2 to 1 to eliminate a pay formula linking city workers' salary increases to those in private industry. With such a mandate, the board of supervisors froze the workers' pay and reduced their benefits. That decision was unchanged by the strike. Said Board President Quentin Kopp: "The lesson to be learned from this strike is that political power in the city has moved away from the special-interest groups such as organized labor and Big Business, into the neighborhoods...