Word: iced
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Bismarck and Mandan, nearby on the Missouri River, there was anxiety. The river ice and slush was packing up just below the cities. Water was rising with threat of flood. In lowlands the Missouri, streaming from the Rocky Mountain watersheds across Montana and draining North Dakota's Little Missouri, Knife and Heart rivers, had spread from its 500-ft. channel over a 6-mi. runway. The cities were in danger. Officials telegraphed President Hoover, pleading that Army bombers be sent to break the ice jam by dropping explosives...
Promptly through official channels went the President's order to do all possible for the ice-threatened communities...
...observation planes began to arrive, and the bombers. There was great fussing and cussing over the delayed arrival of bombs. The warming sun fretted men. It softened the sausage of ice in the river. The ice chittered, crumbled, tumbled down the river, leaving the bombers no work to do. Maj. Gen. James Edmond Fechet, Chief of the Air Corps, detailed three bombers and four observation planes to Fort Lincoln, S. Dak., to wait there for shipments of bombs...
...courts; 2) Attempting to bribe legislators with patronage promises; 3) Employing the militia to loot and pillage private property; 4) Carrying concealed weapons; 5) Deporting himself scandalously at a New Orleans "studio" party; 6) Demolishing the Executive Mansion and disposing of its furniture; 7) Putting a $20,000 ice machine into a penitentiary without public bids...
...cross the Arctic Ocean by submarine, scooting under ice floes, surging up at ice lakes, was the plan voiced in Manhattan last week by Sir George Hubert Wilkins, Arctic-Antarctic explorer. For ten years he has nursed the project...