Word: ices
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Lares. In Washington, arrested for toting an ice pick in the bosom of her blouse, Mrs. John L. Williams blandly explained: "I was moving and I just needed some place to carry...
...Indian side of the Himalayas. But the worst day was still to come. At Kardang Pass the travelers faced a 400-foot glacier, slick as mirror-glass and tilted at a 45° angle. They dismounted and crept on foot up a narrow path hacked in the ice. Donkeys and horses had to be helped up the treacherous slope. Gallant Vincoe had come close to the end of her tether. The caravan cook encouraged her, step by step: "Put this foot here, now that one there, now this one here...
Fifty of these were rejected for flunking the physical exam or not having permission from their parents. Most of those who didn't show up gave "weakness from hour exams" as their excuse. After the actual blood-letting, the blood jars were packed in dracked ice for half an hour and then sent in pre-cooled chests to the State laboratories in Jamaica Plain...
...occasion, Gleysteen was arrested and charged with "signaling out to sea with the lights of his jeep." He was held for two hours in an ice-cold waiting room where he did push-ups to keep warm while Paddock argued for his release. Said Paddock: "The fact that it was not quite dark and that the jeep was pointed inland would seem sufficient to disprove the charge...
Last spring two Brown undergraduates died in fraternity roughhouses allegedly brought about by drunkenness. One fell down a flight of stairs and cracked his head; the other was stabbed with an ice-pick in a Providence...