Word: frozen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...supplies, scour the snow-burdened plains for signs of distress. Some spotted stranded motorists, who had survived miraculously far from towns. Some had been lucky enough to sit out the storm in their cars. One man and his wife who were marooned near Scottsbluff, Neb. had even found food-frozen ears of corn from roadside fields...
...frozen bodies of a rancher, his wife and their two children were found in a field near Rockport, Colo. They had left their car, had tried to cut across the prairie, a mile to their home. The rancher's body was huddled protectively over that of his son. His wife sheltered the body of their daughter. Both had wrapped part of their clothing around the children before they died...
Whiplash (Warner). The hero of this gory battle royal (Dane Clark) gets tagged on the jaw, slugged with a blackjack, kicked in the head and punched orie-eyed in a boxing bout. Since most of this mauling is done by thugs who work for the husband of his beautiful, frozen-faced girl (Alexis Smith), poor dear Dane suffers without a whimper. Toward the end, there is some talk of sending him off to a hospital to have his head examined-an idea which might have saved a lot of trouble earlier in the story...
WASHINGTON, January 13--All draft calls were "frozen" tonight by Selective Service Director Gen. Lewis B. Hershey, according to an Associated Press dispatch. He took the action following an earlier announcement that no men would be called during February and March...
Worst off were the civilian refugees "living in tents and huts, with 50 to a room in schoolhouses or basements of public buildings. These half-starved, half-frozen fugitives form one-tenth of the population...