Word: subzero
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...wear. Fur has begun to shed its politically uncool image (the American fur industry does not use pelts from endangered species such as leopard and baby seal), because "it's an organic, renewable, nonpolluting resource," as Ernest Graf, president of Ben Kahn Furs, explains. In Alaska's subzero temperatures, residents fend off the cold with Eskimo mukluks, boots made from sealskin and caribou, and fur parkas. And down is up everywhere. At many a party, discussing the virtues of feather-stuffed outerwear has replaced talk about the right running gear...
...February, with back-to-back blizzards and a winter long record 87 inches of snow. For more than a month the city that worked became the city that did not work. The snow was not removed. Residents, unable to use their cars on the drifted streets, waited in subzero cold for elevated trains or buses that never came. Yet every night, there was Bilandic on television, proclaiming that everything was fine, that the situation was under control...
...waxable kind that require specially color-coded waxes for different temperatures give optimum performance. But the skier must become something of an expert on snow and weather conditions and take the time to continually change waxes: a day's outing could necessitate the use of green for subzero temperatures, blue for slightly warmer air and red for melting snow. The more casual cross-country skier usually chooses a waxless ski that comes grooved with fish-scale, diamond or chevron patterns to provide both grip and glide. A light flexible boot is attached to the ski by a single...
Bundled in parkas and ski masks, mittens and scarves, the people of Hubert Humphrey's adopted state paid him their final tributes last week. Not even subzero cold could keep them away as they waited patiently on the steps of Minnesota's capitol rotunda in St. Paul for a view of Humphrey's flag-draped casket inside. Among the mourners: a newsboy with his paper bag still slung over his shoulder and a visitor, California's Governor Jerry Brown...
...wait for the sunrise. Your hands prickle from the subzero cold. You turn on the radio--there is nothing out there. Just scratches...