Word: thaws
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...winter day in Labrador some 30 years ago, a fur trader named Clarence Birdseye caught a fish, watched it freeze instantly in the 50° below zero temperature. Days later, he dropped the fish into a pail of water to thaw it out, was amazed to see the fish flip its tail and swim about. Birdseye decided that he had "unlocked one of nature's secrets"-and also hit upon a new way to preserve food. When he returned to civilization (i.e., his home in Gloucester, Mass.), he developed a mechanical quick-freezing process and thereby laid the foundation...
...Shot and killed in 1906 by Playboy Harry Kendall Thaw, whose wife, Evelyn Nesbit, had once been White's mistress. Thaw pleaded temporary insanity, was acquitted of murder in a lurid trial that was a front-page sensation...
...know in the ski country report that there is a better than even chance that the American Inferno, the top race of the spring skiing season, will be run this year. Mr. Washington, is at the moment boasting a thick coat of snow and unless there is a sudden thaw, there will be enough snow left in April to run the race. More people have broken legs coming down the headwall at Washington than any other spot in New England, an added attraction for spectators...
...urging of a nurse who is determined that the Scot shall die among friends, they manage to thaw him out into the friendliest man in the place. When Todd learns that he has been befriended out of pity for his imminent death, he lapses into his old bitter pride, and it takes all of the script's doing to bring him around in time for a lighthearted but misty-eyed ending...
Skeptics thought that self-improvement would thaw in warmer weather. But optimists remembered the words of Finland's famed writer Aleksis Kivi: "If we once start on the job, we'll stick to it with clenched teeth." In Helsinki's Parliament Building last week, Finns jammed a meeting of the Anti-Obesity Association. President Yrjo Simila had clenched his teeth, dieted from 240 to 180 Ibs., and was feeling like...