Word: froze
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...arctic blast that swept down from Canada and froze the face of the nation last week made Americans look like motley snowmen. Out they ventured in funny fur hats, layered sweaters, mittens, turned-up collars and ski masks. The luckiest ones spent as much time as possible near the radiator, as little as necessary out of doors...
...cold snap froze the image of a different America onto the front pages of newspapers and television screens: people huddling outside overnight with little but the coats on their backs. Under blankets, newspapers and garbage bags, they slept on city steam grates to keep warm, huddled over fires in vacant lots, or hid out from the freezing wind in cardboard warrens constructed in the tunnels beneath railroad or subway stations...
...biggest (939,142 students) and arguably the baddest in all the land, said to the mayor, "Why don't you be seated?" Koch complied, like a schoolboy whom the principal has put in his place. And when His Honor tried later to rise, the Big Apple's new headmaster froze him with a turn of the hand...
...showing their relations to the real cultural history of Germany, bitterly polluted by Nazi appropriation. When Kiefer paints a Nazi monument, such as the Mosaic Room in Hitler's Chancellery in Berlin, designed by Speer, he also evokes by implication the noble tradition of German neoclassicism that Speer froze and vulgarized. His charred, plowed landscapes, their heavy paint mixed with straw, are real agricultural terrain, but they are also frontier, no- man's land, graveyard and the biblical desert of Exodus...
Still reeling from the Agrokomerc affair, Mikulic lurched into his latest crisis last week after pushing painful economic reforms through parliament. A reworked version of a 120-point plan that leaders of the republics flatly rejected last month, the measures froze prices of some food staples but increased others by up to 70%. The goal: to bring prices into line with costs of production. Whatever the economic merit of the moves, they provoked a fire storm of protest and criticism...