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...avoid shutting down large portions of the city water system when they began installing water meters at every residence, water-department workers in Boulder, Colo., turned to cryogenics. At each house, they poured liquid nitrogen over the inlet pipes, which froze the water inside for 20 minutes and enabled them to install the meter without losing so much as a drip...
...bled at Bunker Hill and froze at Valley Forge. I rode with Washington across the icy Delaware. I am defender of our nation. Now and forever, I am the Guard...
...Japanese. Alaska's fish and wildlife experts knew as long ago as the winters of 1963 and 1965 that bad times were coming. For one thing, there were disastrous freezes in each of those years; such streams as the Nass and Skeena froze solid. When the spring thaws came, most of the young salmon that survived the ice were swept away with their gravel nurseries...
till my wet fur froze...
...margin of 232 to 171, the House froze new commitments to a pet Administration scheme to subsidize the rents of poor families in privately owned, nonprofit housing projects. The White House had requested $40 million for fiscal 1968, saw that figure cut to $10 million by the Appropriations Committee and then to zero on the House floor. The Republican-led opposition came close to garroting the model-cities program as well. President Johnson had requested $662 million for his showcase exercise in creative federalism, which is aimed at encouraging cities to draw up their own plans for the rehabilitation...