Word: froze
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Across the U.S., the Arctic downdraft froze bodies of water large and small, sometimes with dire results. The Snake River in Idaho was stopped up by a ten-mile-long ice jam, threatening floods, and Louisiana's Red River froze up for the first time this century. Coast Guard cutters freed a dozen Lake Erie freighters stuck in 12-ft.-high windrows of ice, and on the frozen Mississippi River near Keokuk, Iowa, 30 towboats pushing about 430 grain barges are trapped until spring. In the shallow Gulf of Mexico bays from Galveston to Port Isabel, Texas, tens...
...week's end readings had gone as low as a heart-stopping -55° in Wisdom, Mont. Even the Sunbelt shivered. "This is the worst ice storm I've seen in years," said Fort Worth Policeman Henry Green, as the city froze over. "And I've seen some doozies...
...signs of new national prosperity, next Thursday's winter solstice will pass practically unnoticed amid the Christmas rush. But to the homeless, the change of seasons means that it gets harder to survive. During the past two years in New York City, at least 29 street people froze to death. Last February in Atlanta, Roosevelt Richardson, a drunk, climbed into an abandoned car to sleep; gangrene followed frostbite. "I didn't have a blanket," he says. "I guess that's why I lost my feet...
...convicted, they face possible fines of $10,000 and three years in prison. In addition, Federal District Judge William Hoeveler, acting on a civil suit filed by the Federal Trade Commission, last week issued an injunction to prevent U.S. Oil and Gas from continuing its fraudulent sales. He froze the company's assets and in effect put it out of business. Said the judge: "The profit to the company was enormous, and the chance for reward to customers was almost nonexistent...
...Iran has agreed to payments of $896 million to U.S. banks from a $1.42 billion escrow fund deposited in the Bank of England as part of the January 1981 hostage-release agreement. Iran had said it would repudiate its debts to American banks in late 1979, after Jimmy Carter froze Iranian assets in the U.S. Bankers from both countries now meet almost daily at the London branch of Iran's Bank Melli to allocate the fund, and participants say the talks have become increasingly free of polemics. The biggest settlement to a commercial bank came in July, when Iran...