Word: stay
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...days a time. As for Coldfoot, an unconfirmed reading there two weeks ago put the temperature at -82 degrees, colder than the official North American record of -81 degrees set in the Canadian Yukon in 1947. Alaska Governor Steve Cowper declared a state of emergency, requesting everyone to stay indoors as much as possible...
Heavy steel equipment in the North Slope oil fields turned icily brittle and snapped into pieces. Military operations were disrupted. Most of the 26,000 Army, Air Force and Coast Guard personnel taking part in Operation Brim Frost, an Arctic training mission, were told to stay in their barracks. The Kusko 300, one of the state's major dog-mushing events, had to be postponed...
...frigid air mass finally began to move, it blew into western Canada, where the temperature in many cities plunged as low as -40 degrees F. The worst snowstorm in Edmonton since 1885 brought the city to a virtual standstill. In Calgary 100,000 grade-school children were told to stay home when the wind-chill factor reached -67 degrees, a level at which exposed flesh freezes in less than a minute...
...proposal is approved by the judge handling the case, U.S. District Judge Gerhard A. Gesell, the Justice Department will ask the Supreme Court to lift the stay so that the North trial may proceed, according to statements issued by the department and Walsh...
Sprinter Meredith Rainey managed to stay up on the cloud of track success, winning the 800-meter...