Word: ices
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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More than 100 ice-skating enthusiasts have already signed petitions to get a professional instructor at Watson Rink next winter...
When a freshman arrives at the dessert end of the Union food line and requests a double portion, Mrs. Millic J. Corballis must refuse. "I'm sorry, deary," she apologizes, "but its against the rules." Formerly the boys would take so much ice cream that it spilled from their trays on to the floor: and when an unwary Wellesley girl slipped and skidded on her pride, the one-portion rule was adopted. But, "come back, sweetheart," adds Mrs. Corballis, "there is plenty...
Your article was excellent, but you really should have emphasized the terror of this regime more than you did . . . In addition to the ice you mentioned, a favorite method of persuasion is the electric treatment . . . To drive a car here is as near to terror as can be. The traffic police can stop you for no reason whatsoever, accuse you of speeding (even if you are standing still), and haul you off to jail for a stay of ten days or a fine of anything...
...stranger, a wiry man in a bright green shirt and red shorts. The superintendent wrenched a rusty, four-inch clasp knife out of his hand, threw him to the ground and whisked him off to the police station before the angry crowd could get at him. Nehru, cool as ice, barely stopped smiling at the crowd and pressing his palms together in the traditional Hindu greeting. "You don't want to take risks?" he told his agitated followers. "Then don't take them." Nehru thought that the would-be assassin, a 33-year-old Hindu ricksha boy called...
This year he tried again with his new light airplane, an Ercoupe. At first he wanted to use frozen Lake Mendota, near Madison, for his circular runway, but the city council said no. Last fortnight he set up his apparatus on the ice of Lake Kegonsa, a safe distance from Madison. The spindle and hub were attached to a steel barrel frozen into the ice and guyed solidly. A double strand of woven nylon, 400 ft. long, led to a quick-release fixture under a wing of the airplane...