Word: frozen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Sumner Welles, 56, found unconscious in a Maryland neighbor's frosty field last week, was coming along fine too: doctors now doubted that his frozen toes would have to be amputated...
Between their sightseeing and night-seeing rounds the men told their story of survival. Seven men were flying in a C-47 during an 80-mile-per-hour blow, when both engines conked out. They pancaked on to a frozen plateau 7,700 feet above sea level and 40° below zero...
...second part of Hogan's equipment is nervous tension, under fine control. He believes it is something a golfer must be born with, then have tempered under pressure. Hogan's outward manifestation of it: a frozen half-grin, something like an infant's "gas smile," denoting pain inside. When the going gets tough as it did in the 1947 Jacksonville Open-he took eleven strokes on a par-three hole-the Hogan nerves hold. On the next hole at Jacksonville he got a birdie...
Early Sunday morning, three days after he attended Laurence Duggan's funeral (see cut), Sumner Welles was found unconscious and nearly frozen to death in a bleak field near his Maryland estate, about a mile south of Washington's city limits...
...their way home from church saw the tall, 56-year-old ex-Under Secretary of State, bareheaded and wearing a heavy fur coat, prostrate beside a lonesome road. His face had been scratched by briers, but there was no sign that he had been attacked. His clothes were frozen to his body; apparently he had fallen into a stream, stumbled out and collapsed a little distance beyond. He had lain there some eight hours before he was found...