Word: icebox
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...SHACK is small and smells strongly of fish. Its white exterior stands starkly against the horizon. Inside, the room is bare except for a wooden chair and an ancient refrigerator left over from an era when it was still called an "icebox...
Sometimes a crusty old mariner sits in the wooden chair, awaiting his customers. As often as not, however, the room is empty except for the icebox and the chair. A note, torn and faded from too many days in the summer air, is stuck permanently on the shack door...
...says "Come in--if no one is here, the clams are in the icebox. Leave the money on the chair." The note is signed "Steve...
Steve loves the sea and sea life. It shows in the easy, careful way he removes the clams from the icebox; it shows from the fatherly way he hands over the clams after he bags and seals them...
Noting her dyed blonde hair (it had once been chestnut brown), many Argentines complained that she intentionally made herself up to look like Evita. Others simply found her cold. "If Eva Peron was passion compressed," grumbled one Peronist, "Isabel is an icebox...