Word: ices
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Frigid Work. The Senate's machinery is less well lubricated. One hot day this summer, Illinois' Senator Everett Dirksen stopped in to talk to Majority Leader Bill Knowland. Dirksen said he was thirsty, although Knowland had not asked him. Bill Knowland went to his icebox, found the ice trays frozen in from long disuse, began hacking at them with a letter opener. With characteristic single-mindedness, Knowland turned down his aides' suggestion that they get some ice from the Senate restaurant, and ignored Dirksen's pleas to forget it. Fifteen minutes later, Knowland had his ice...
...Senate is as intractable as Knowland's ice trays. Its rules are designed to humor the egos and the caprice of men who all regard themselves as national celebrities. In his difficult job, Knowland works with tireless energy, but in training himself for statesmanship, he had to bypass a tutelage in political finesse. He lacks Martin's knack for looking ahead, often neglects to count votes long enough in advance because of his preoccupation with a bill currently on the Senate floor...
...Arctic seas are warming, too. Eskimos of Greenland have had to abandon sealhunting; the seals have moved farther north. Instead, the Eskimos are fishing for cod, which have moved in from the south. Even north of Siberia the water is growing warmer; the Russians are having less trouble with ice on their far-northern sea route...
...Frederiksen believes that warmth and cold in the Arctic come in cycles of about 1,800 years. Before the last peak of cold, from which the Arctic is just emerging, Greenland was really green, and the sea between Greenland and Iceland was sufficiently free of ice to permit the tiny ships of the Vikings to sail without disaster. Dr. Frederiksen predicts that this condition will return, and that great areas of Siberia, Canada and Alaska, now almost uninhabitable, will be opened to agriculture. Population will move north, and the world's balance of power may be affected...
...flight of stairs, but he caught up to the British advance party after 19 days. It was more than 18,000 feet up the side of Everest. The expedition physiologist, who had made the climb carefully and slowly to become acclimatized, seemed dazed when Izzard came puffing among the ice blocks in his sneakers. Wrote Izzard: "The idea that a man could walk up from sea level to nearly 19,000 feet without pause seemed so disconcerting to [him] that for some time the only thing I could do to oblige him was to drop dead in my tracks...