Word: frozenly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Petrovek finished with 17 official saves, most of which involved frozen rubber travelling at the speed of light. And with 1:58 left to play, the senior responded to the tension of a 2-2 game with one of his best, spearing a red-hot drive by Eagle Joe Augustine to keep Harvard in the hunt...
...threatened many more layoffs-at least 300,000 in New Jersey alone. General Motors, U.S. Steel and other large companies kept many operations going by switching from natural gas to oil or coal, but all over the Midwest huge quantities of those fuels were immobilized aboard barges stuck in frozen rivers...
...Greeks and Romans, parents kissed their children, lovers and married persons kissed each other, and so did friends of the same or different sexes. Martial complains in one of his epigrams: "Yet, Linus, thou layest hold on all thou meetest; none can thy clutches miss; but with thy frozen mouth all Rome dost kiss." The early Christians obeyed St. Paul's injunction to "greet one another with a holy kiss" until the symbol of fellowship degenerated sometimes into sexual scandal. In the Middle Ages, knights kissed before doing battle, just as boxers touch gloves. The varieties of kisses...
President Jimmy Carter could not have left his home state at a better time. The Chattahoochee River in northeast Georgia was choked with invading ice. Studying the strange landscape, Mountaineer Lanier Chambers declared: "It is so cold, my imagination is frozen." The Georgia Power Co. instituted 30-to 60-minute blackouts throughout the state. In Atlanta, which dipped to 1°, patrons wore their overcoats while dining at the posh Peachtree Plaza Hotel...
...Providence, Ky., a coal-mining town (pop. 4,270) numbed by temperatures down to -20°. As ice and snow made the winding roads impassable, the children have been able to attend school only three days this month. When the town's water supply was blocked by a frozen valve, the National Guard trucked in water to the fire station, where residents lined up with jugs for their 2-gal. rations. In their mutual need, the townspeople found a new spirit of closeness. "Everybody is working as one big family," said Municipal Inspector Randy McCully...