Word: frozen
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week it was so cold in Europe that hungry wolves padded swiftly down from the frozen Carpathian Mountains to raid isolated Rumanian villages for sheep and cattle. Turkeys driven to stations in northern France for the trip to Paris' Christmas markets froze to death. Ravenous crows attacked and mortally injured a small girl in Poland. Big Ben, intoning the hours in London, sounded like a pig-squeak...
During the cold winter of 1717, snow fell steadily for five days in New England, lay five or six feet deep in Boston for a long time. In March 1741, people sleighed from Stratford, Conn. to Long Island across the solidly frozen Sound. In 1779-80, according to Thomas Jefferson, "the Chesapeake Bay was frozen solid from its head to the mouth of the Potomac. At Annapolis the ice was five to seven inches in thickness, quite across...
Those who sensed quickly what had happened rolled off the cars. Frozen to their seats with shock and fear, the others held on until it was too late. Faster, faster, faster rolled the rake, rocking crazily as it gathered speed. Panic-stricken miners flung themselves over the side. Some were bounced off the bedrock walls, hurled under the wheels of the rear cars as they whizzed past. A few miners grabbed at a heavy, covered power line which ran along the roof of the low shaft and hung on, knees pulled high to clear the rows of seats, until...
...head the company siren was already wailing. Before long hundreds of miners' wives and children, thankful for the prospect of a Christmas pay check an hour before, stood frozen-faced at the mine entrance. Toll: 21 dead, 32 critically injured, not one of the 250 unhurt. It was the worst mine disaster in Nova Scotia since 1918. In Sydney Mines some shop-keepers took down the Christmas decorations from their windows...
EASTERN SLOPE REGION: 6 to 8 inches of frozen granular on slopes. 20 above, clear...