Word: glacial
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Waterton Lakes for the bracing air, spectacular glacial lakes and year-round skiing in the perpetual snows...
Anyone expecting a crime of passion at this point reckons without the glacial restraint of modern British novelists. Author William Sansom muzzles the tiger in the blood in order to muster a conversational mouse in the drawing room. In The Face of Innocence, the crisp, angled light of his prose gives the mouse an exaggerated shadow. So does his main theme: that things are rarely what they seem...
Below these layers they went through a large rockfall to hit glacial gravel of the Pleistocene. After the discovery of a rare hand ax, tension in the deep hole grew as thick as the close air below the cave floor. Then, in the sputtering light of a Coleman lamp, the Iranian workmen disinterred the skeletons of the three prehistoric men who had met sudden death there some 75,000 years...
...Chinese Reds toiled last week across Tibet's forbidding, wind-scoured glacial plateau, their press & radio for the first time reported how they had prepared the blow...
...show for her, and so was Joshua Logan. There were plans afoot to star her in a radio program and a television show. There were offers from Hollywood and blueprints for a Blondes comic strip and a Lorelei doll modeled on Carol's lines. Even the glacial captains of café society's most chichi saloons, "21" and the Stork, went out of their way to bow effusively and greet her by name. "Everything," said Carol in her own peculiar idiom, "has leveled off just wonderfully...