Word: ices
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Thin Ice. Barth's pessimism is enough to cast the optimistic reader into deepest depression. "Everything we see before us today." he writes, "is more or less polluted, diluted and devalued . . . Men were never good, are not good, and never will be good . . . The morality of modern civilized man has turned out to be a terribly thin covering of ice over a sea of primitive barbarity . . . There is no doubt but that in recent years the whole conception of a Christian civilization in the West has been pitilessly exposed as an illusion-not least in the eyes...
...reach his present status of influence, Rab Butler has had the advantage of superior intelligence, foresight, and an inherited sense of service. He has few close friends in the House of Commons, or the Cabinet. "Once you break the ice with Rab, you find the ice water underneath," cracked one M.P. His self-confidence almost touches arrogance. "I'm supposed to know all the answers and I usually do," he once told a press conference. But he is widely respected, his intimate friends find him charming and witty, and his intellectual authority as the party's guiding brain...
...fifth) and torrents of other beverages, ate their way through flocks of guinea hens and a whole salmon (length: I yd.), gaped at one buffet display featuring a woolly lamb surrounded by genuine lamb chops. The swan-song theme was carried out by a dozen huge swans, carved from ice, which graced the tables, plus flocks of smaller black-metal swans dangling from trellises in the yard. While a dance band (Tommy and Jimmy Dorsey's), a rhumba outfit and an eight-woman string ensemble blared and sawed away, Marianne, all in pink with a diamond tiara, held court...
Hockey's controversial rule concerning a player touching the puck with his hands has been changed to permit the player to knock the puck to the ice, but he cannot pass it to a teammate...
...NCAA's Ice Hockey Rules Committee accepted the proposed change at its meeting in the Hotel Kenmore over the weekend...