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...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...
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...
White-haired Andrei Vishinsky, who had been gossiping amiably with Elder Statesman Bernard Baruch, froze in his seat. Then, in a move familiar in U.N. circles, but still a shock at social gatherings, he got up and, followed obediently by the Soviets' Jacob Malik, strode with all available hauteur from the room...
...house in the southeastern part of town, and came out with an oilcloth-covered package cached there years before by a prison pal. Next morning, Long unwrapped his package, took out a Reising submachine gun, and ambled into a branch of the First National Bank of Portland. He froze the bank's employees in their places by pumping four shots into the ceiling, forced a typist to stuff $9,716 into a paper bag, grabbed the loot and rushed from the bank toward a Ford truck...
...summer and fall following his grizzly over New Mexico and Colorado. Faithfully he sent back his dispatches to the hunting party: "We will get him sooner or later-just as it suits you." Ben kept on the trail till the grizzly hibernated, though once he complained, "My gun froze on the route. I didn't have a mouthful of meat for ten days...