Word: ices
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...coast. The sea was utterly empty; in 68 days of sailing the voyagers saw not one ship or airplane. Food and water ran low. There were no fish to catch. Another storm blew the Miru north again. Then, 350 miles off the coast of South America, the sea turned ice-cold because of the rapid Peru Current which sweeps northward out of the Antarctic. By this time all the adults were getting one slim meal a day; Dr. Davis himself lost 25 Ibs. But the two small boys, not on rations, had gained weight, as small boys should...
Walter Brown's ice hockey palace, the Boston Arena, which he was reported last winter to have closed to any further college hockey because of the huge deficit, will be open this season for Crimson hockey. The schedule will be curtailed, however. Brown loses in the vicinity of $50,000 annually on the venture, mostly because of the high cost of the maintenance of ice, and the small income from college A.A.'s and hockey crowds...
...teams of the metropolitan area (Harvard, B.U., B.C., and Northeastern) will be given ice for games on weekends when the Avena can count on large enough crowds to make a profit. There will be no ice at all in the Arena on Mondays and Tuesdays, and college practice sessions will be curtailed the other days of the week. As a result the Crimson will probably go back to early morning practices at the Skating Club at least twice a week...
...exploded prematurely, killing dozens of front-line soldiers. Calling themselves the "Free Officers," a group of young Palestine veterans joined in a national protest presented to the King by the opposition parties. But Farouk took no notice. "[His] ears were as of stone," says Naguib, "his eyes as of ice. He scorned these warnings and called their authors children...
...against neutrality in Switzerland is like being against virtue or ice-cream sodas in the U.S. The Swiss, trusting in their mountains, their tough little army, and their luck, have not been in a war for 137 years, have determinedly stayed out of Europe's attempt to organize a joint defense. Yet a bold, bad professor, one Marcel Beck of the University of Zurich, dares question the wisdom of Swiss isolationism. The National Day Committee, a well-meaning group which organizes patriotic rallies, invited Professor Beck to speak on the 661st anniversary celebration of Swiss independence. His speech...