Word: froze
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Athenaeum Group, the garage's builders, is required by law to provide a certain number of parking spaces for its One Kendall Square Development. But the Federal Clean Air Act of 1973 froze the number of commercial parking spaces allowed in Cambridge...
...That's not necessarily true. I am always looking for innovative people. In Viet Nam I was running the riverboat operation, and two kinds of people showed up. One asked for the tactical doctrine on how to operate those boats. When we said there wasn't any, he froze. That man was useless. Another type would say, "You mean nobody knows how to do this?", and "I know as much as anybody?" And when I said yes, he'd say, "Hot dog!" and go off and do it. That guy was great...
...French and Russian revolutions. "But," he added -- and a listener should always lean forward when Gorbachev begins a sentence with that conjunction -- "today we face a different world, for which we must seek a different road to the future." Marat may have been bemused, but Lenin most likely froze in mid-scowl...
Harvard's improvisational comedy group "On Thin Ice" also sent a delegation. Members from the group took turns cavorting on stage, then froze into inexplicably comic postures. "I'd never seen that done before," said Chen...
...zero temperatures, the Crimson froze out the Elis, 14-10, to capture its first outright title since...