Word: ices
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...freak ice-skating accident...
...Laurence Olivier's irresolute staging, which leaves most of the cast uncharacterized and even Lilli Palmer living entirely off charm. The splendid exceptions are Rex Harrison as the duke and John Williams as the estate manager. Fry, in his own words, is here coruscating on thin ice; and he has forgotten Emerson's warning that in skating on thin ice, "our safety is in our speed...
...Awful Discipline." Wood's vigorous way of life is the result of a rigorous youth. Born in Kansas City, Mo. in 1879, he was the first of five children of Robert Whitney Wood, an ex-Union Army captain who settled down to run a coal and ice business. When he was 16, Wood was so small (5' 4") that his father gave him $10, sent him off to earn his living and toughen up. After nearly a year with a railroad surveying gang in Texas, Wood returned to Kansas City and won a competitive examination for West Point...
...freshman hockey team will play the University of New Hampshire freshman at Durham today at 4 p.m. if the ice is good. The team won't find out if they will play until 10 a.m. when ice conditions will be known...
Howell flew over upstate areas in 1950 seeding rain clouds with day ice and chemicals in an effort to cause them to precipitate and fill the city's empty reservoirs...