Word: ices
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...days wore on and methodical Ben went about his practice routine-three shots, differently placed, from every tee-Scottish annoyance turned to admiration for the dour little man from Texas. Before long, the Scots were calling him, almost affectionately, "The Wee Ice Mon," though a hard core still proudly insisted: "No American is going to burn up Carnoustie...
With lumps of ice for flavoring...
Stalin did not underestimate the difficulties. "Communism," he once remarked to a diplomat, "fits Germans the way a saddle fits a cow." The job required an agent as cold and slippery as a block of ice, an unregenerate Dr. Faustus, to whom all East Germany would be a Margarete. Walter Ulbricht was ready. For 25 years the tailor's son from Leipzig had pursued the dark alchemy of Communist intrigue in preparation for the call...
...Government is engaged in everything from tire-recapping to coffee-roasting, from binding books to freezing ice cream (162 plants) and making brooms and spectacles. It owns some 122,000 housing units, and by the Comptroller General's estimate, rents them at a loss. Every Washington agency operates its own fleet of motor vehicles, although one central motor pool (not to mention taxis) could handle the job. General Services Administration maintains a fleet of trucks for moving Government furniture about Washington, and since some of the trucks may be used only half a day a week, private movers could...
...they stumbled, like flies on a whitewashed wall. An unmapped ice ridge stopped them, as it had stopped Team No. i. On one side, the ridge's gables projected over a face that fell 12,000 ft. Opposite was snow, firm enough for footholds, but guarded by a sheer rock face, 40 ft. high and holdless. At sea level this would be a minor obstacle to a trained mountaineer, but at 29,000 ft., neither Hillary nor Tenzing could attempt it. Instead they found a chimney that opened to the top. Hillary went first and crabbled his way upward...