Word: frozen
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...rocky, windswept slope some 2,000 ft. below the summit, expedition member Conrad Anker spotted "a patch of white"--brighter, he says, than any of the snow or rocks around it. Sprawled facedown on the mountainside, with arms outstretched and hands dug into the frozen ground, lay the bleached, mummified remains of a man. It was Mallory, his body almost perfectly preserved in the thin, dry air, a safety rope around his waist, and still partly clad in remnants of his tattered cotton, wool and tweed climbing clothes, the ragged collars stitched with markings G.L. MALLORY. He had apparently tumbled...
...Bernich, a resident of a once nice block in Moore, Okla., knew how lucky he was. Not 48 hours earlier, he, his wife and their two daughters had shut themselves in a small utility room, linked arms and prayed, knowing a monster loomed above. "It was surreal, time was frozen," he said. "It felt like the tornado was hovering over our house," which it was. Then the pause ended, there was a roar ("like it exhaled"), and Bernich's house imploded. The utility room and its inhabitants, however, survived. "We feel blessed," said Bernich. And so did many...
...born to a baked-goods fortune and never thought she would be concerned with getting or giving money. "I liked to be taken care of," says Sara Lee Schupf, 58, the namesake of the famous frozen pies. Then in the early '80s, after a devastating divorce, she had to learn to take care of herself and others. She had no work experience and no clue about managing money. With four kids to look after and educate, she imagined her savings dwindling rapidly and, she says, "spent many days in tears...
...time consuming: "In Europe they work all day too, but they somehow manage." This may be a tough sell in the U.S., where warming a TV dinner in the oven instead of the microwave constitutes leisurely dining. But Americans should know this: Sun Crest peaches taste lousy frozen...
What Cesar ultimately uncovers is that he was cryogenically frozen after his death by the nefarious firm Life Extension and has been "reincarnated" in a dream world in the year 2145. Life Extension selected the night that Cesar was at the bar as the one in which to splice his real and fantasy life...