cold
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I pull a paper towel from the dispenser and run it under some cold water.
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While the Indigenous people had avoided the area and called it Tesemini, or Lake of Spirits, European settlers enjoyed the cold, clear water.
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Cracking the top 10 was “a shock” for the singer, as if she had been “thrown in cold water.”
More notable than the snowfall itself was the prolonged blast of extreme cold that followed, hardening snow into what has been informally dubbed "snowcrete" and making cleanup efforts especially difficult.
From Barron's
A Deutsche Bahn spokesman told AFP that a January cold snap in northern Germany contributed to the high rate of delays.
From Barron's
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