Word: ices
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Kentucky Melody. Rosemary Clooney comes from historic ballad country, about ten miles upstream from the place where Eliza nipped across the ice ahead of the bloodhounds. She was born on May 23, 1928, the daughter of a housepainter in Maysville, Ky. (pop. 8,600). Her sister Betty came along three years later and, two years after that, a brother, Nicholas. Later her parents separated, and Rosemary, moving from relative to relative and town to town, has never settled down since (though, nowadays, two blocks of a Maysville street is officially known as "Rosemary Clooney Street...
...handed an electrically charged bar. Movies recorded who screamed and who bit his cheeks in the approved stoic fashion. It was deep winter, but at 6 a.m. reveille the cadets fell in on the weather deck of the training ship, stripped to the waist, washed and shaved out of ice-filled buckets of water. On shore the treatment was reversed: pushups with everyone swaddled in three pairs of pajamas, two blue uniforms, a grey overcoat, woolen cap, steel helmet and pack, in a room as hot as a pressure cooker...
Police yesterday caught two freshmen in the act of secret ice practice sessions for this summer's Tour de France bicycle race...
...Robert C. Richardson '56 would admit how long they had been perfecting their new method for whipping cyclists into shape. But their reasoning seems to run that undesirable hills would not have to be climbed if the trainee contented himself with spinning his bicycle's wheels on ice...
Cleverly is absolutely right on this point. Although it might not solve the ice problem, it would solve more important ones: of scheduling, NCAA representation, gate receipts, local league incentive, stiffer competition, and what have you. Those three teams annually play all Pentagonal League members, anyway...