Word: iced
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...been a thrilling experience to face the Russians on ice," Cleary said yesterday, commenting on his squad's recent game with the powerful U.S.S.R. six. "The Soviets are serious precisionists, but the National squad hasn't lost hope for the world championship, no matter what happens to Harvard and the other college teams confronting the Russians...
Tufts, on the other hand, forechecked continually, and gave the varsity a good deal of trouble in clearing the puck, especially in the first two periods. The Jumbo offense was limited primarily to a floater and to a few disorganized dashes up the ice...
Four successive penalties severely handicapped the Crimson attack in the second period and for about ten minutes the varsity never had more than five men on the ice. Tufts managed to capitalize on the last of these misdemeanors at 13:28 when Benson took a pass from Farrell and beat Harry Pratt cleanly. The Crimson retaliated at 17:21 as Higginbottom got his third goal on passes from Vietze and Fischer...
...Piece of Ice. For all its scientific, precision-tooled marvels, the Nautilus sometimes developed quirks that only homely ingenuity could resolve. A few months before the '58 transpolar run, a leak "no larger than a human hair" developed in the steam-condenser system. An agonizing search by experts failed to track it down. In a do-it-yourself mood, Commander Anderson had the crew pour 70 quart cans of "Stop Leak," a $1.80-a-can remedy for auto radiator leaks, into the Nautilus condenser system, and it stopped the leak that might eventually have cost the life...
...honors heaped upon the Nautilus and her commander, at least one was unparalleled: the first Presidential Unit Citation ever awarded in peacetime. Of highly personal pleasure to Commander Anderson was a private ceremony in which he presented a piece of polar ice, brought back in the Nautilus' freezer, to his old boss, Rickover. The admiral's gaunt face creased into childlike smiles of delight as he examined the memento ("that piece of ice meant more to him than all the rank . . . and fame that have been showered upon him"). In its way, it was a not unfitting symbolic...