Word: ices
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Adams, House Ice Cream Derby heads round the last turn today, a black horse, chocolate chip, has forged ahead of the favorites--chocolate and vanilla--and seems an almost certain winner...
Four 1,500-watt lights have been placed on poles around the ice. That isn't all that's necessary, however. What seems to be traditional New England weather has converted the Soldiers Field rink into a swimming pool. As a result the pipes have been turned off for the duration of the Indian summer...
Along the Indian-Chinese frontier, the longest frontier in the world between oppression and a democracy, Communist infiltrators are burrowing into the border states of Nepal, Bhutan and Sikkim-which lie upon India's side of the great Himalayan battlement (see below). From this frontier, where ice-winds howl and lichen creeps around the tall mountains, an Indian Army Mission reported: "Long considered impregnable ... the frontier . . . [is] now looked upon as a possible route of infiltration, if not of invasion...
...customers not to kiss in public ("If you can't kiss someone in a sidewalk cafe, where can you kiss her?"), and explained why French speak such tortured English (they use an English-made-easy guide, which offers such phonetic help as: "Pliize sho me ze boukigne off-ice for leug-guedge"). Occasionally he also picks up off-beat business news, like his report on Trans World Airlines' Board Chairman Warren Lee Pierson: "When I first became chairman ... I picked up a card in one of the offices which read: 'Directions for making a Martini over...
...with frustrations and a rage to leave the poor, brawl-bitten shanty Irish world of the O'Neills who bore him and the O'Flahertys who brought him up. In The Face of Time, Danny is five, too young to care about much except where the next ice cream cone is coming from...