Word: ices
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...relaxed. He danced a Cossack dance for French General de Lattre de Tassigny, ate all the salted peanuts he could lay his hands on, amused himself with Reichsmarshal Goring's private zoo, had a pretty German cottage dismantled and shipped back to Moscow. He went riding every morning, ice skating when there was ice, and was proud of his fitness. Years before, New York Herald Tribune Correspondent Walter Kerr, explaining how difficult it was to learn anything about Zhukov's personal life, had said that the only time he had come close to Zhukov was when a little...
...crannies of Government, less dramatic ways have been found to eliminate competition with private business. The Defense Department has shut down 24 scrap-metal operations, seven bakeries, nine laundries, a chain factory, a caustic-soda plant, four cement-mixing plants, a tire-retreading plant, two garden nurseries and four ice plants. The Navy, which has been manufacturing uniforms for years, has closed its clothing factory. It is bringing in more private yards to overhaul its ships, has boosted such contracts from $34 million in 1953 to $82 million in fiscal...
...little crocodile," but she was really something of a big-name hunter out to bag the half-dead lion of the Russian theater. They scarcely lived together, but she was with him on a trip through Germany in 1904 when the final TB attack came. The doctor ordered an ice pack placed on his heart, and Chekhov said, "You don't put an ice pack on an empty heart." Then the doctor insisted that he drink a glass of champagne. Chekhov's last words: "It's a long time since I've had any champagne...
Moreover, the central position of the chapel permits it to be sighted especially well from the ice-rink and baseball field, where mundane pettiness must give way to divine forgival and benediction. Here, this conspicuous exterior may act to furnish added inspiration to a religious tirade, or even assuage wrath by its soothing religiosity...
Ever since cloud-seeding began (TiME, Aug. 28, 1950), the scientific rainmakers have been haunted by a stimulating worry. They feared-or hoped-that their Dry Ice and silver iodide might do more than wring the water out of local masses of susceptible clouds. Rainmaking might possibly start meteorological chain reactions, conjure up violent storms, bring blizzards whistling down from Canada, or even beckon hurricanes off the open sea. This possibility had a military angle: timely cloud-seeding from a safe distance might mess up the weather of an enemy country. Last week Meteorologist Dr. Jerome Spar of New York...