Word: glazes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...first climbed (by a Swiss guide named Mattias Zurbriggen) in 1897. After a tramp through desert-like heat at the base, the climbers crawled through a rock-chocked ravine to reach the slopes. Even in the midsummer month of February, clouds can lay a treacherous coat of verglas (glaze ice) on the slopes in less than an hour. Ice or no ice, there is always the danger of an attack of soroche-high-altitude sickness. With advice from Mottet, who had climbed the peak once before, Hackett skirted the traps until almost to the goal. Then the witches' wind...
...broke off as he saw in Pendrake's eyes the defensive glaze one assumes when listening to a religious or political fanatic. He extended a hand and said, "Goodbye, kid. Lucy's expecting...
...deadlock on the Italian colonies, Ernest Bevin did the honors for 800 at the even more palatial British Embassy, with a much more austere buffet. Cinderella-like, Bidault, Byrnes and Molotov left on the stroke of midnight; no sooner had they gone than Bevin cracked his party's glaze of tension by foxtrotting with Lady Diana Duff Cooper...
...Champ had swung-a full roundhouse blow. And it was plain to the newsmen on the Dewey Special that the challenger had been hit hard-as plain as when a boxer drops his gloves and his eyes glaze...
...tops] of the feet. These became more and more swollen until the skin was tightly stretched and assumed a peculiar bluish transparency. . . . Fissures appeared [which] were readily infected. . . . Farther up the leg, the edema distends the skin; and over the lower leg especially, this has often a high glaze. The whole limb up to the groin was often [swollen]. The external genitalia were early affected by the edema...