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How could the testimony of a man like Chambers, Hiss asked with icy contempt, visibly unkempt, overweight, and "forbiddingly drab" (in Lionel Trilling's phrase), with no style and little personal status, a man who had lived, in Hiss' words, "in the sewers, plotting against his native land," possibly outweigh the simple facts of Hiss' career as Harvard graduate, trusted aide to FDR at Yalta, and one of the architects of the United Nations?
The icy conditions mean that good quality mitochondrial DNA could be extracted from most of the specimens.
An outer layer is clearly necessary in these conditions, even when you're vigorously exercising (which I tried to do in the freezer until I quickly became lightheaded from the icy air).
An obituary in the New York Times used the word cold three times, and for good measure added chilly , icy , bleak , and grim . Kubrick the Cold is a cliché that cropped up in the columns of Pauline Kael and now serves as a comfy sofa for those who don't want to deal with Kubrick's ambition.
One of the more hazardous ways down, and so a favorite with children, is the Escalier Casse-Cou (Breakneck Stairway), merely dangerous when wet, lethal when icy.
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