Word: ices
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...scene between the two at the dockside was as cold as any ice the breakers ever faced. Up to virtually the last minute, the Reds had refused to give their estimated time of arrival. Once in, they parleyed half the night over the exchange, then hauled down their flags and stiffly marched aboard an accompanying Russian ship for the trip home. But they did give up the ships...
...kept out of Hearstpaper affairs, except as a $1-a-year adviser (TIME, Nov. 5). The first sign of her advice: when her friend Sonja Henie opened her ice show on the West Coast, the San Francisco Examiner ran feature stories for four straight days, the Call-Bulletin headlined a rave review: SONJA'S ICE SHOW WINS HEART...
Only four of the five judges wore the traditional tam-o'-shanter caps, but all five were traditionalist enough to get down on their hands & knees to peer and poke at the curlicues of ice shavings. The occasion, solemnified at Indianapolis last week by the undignified postures of the judges: the figure skating tryouts for the U.S. Olympic team...
Blue and red, like mingled ice and fire, rule the windows. The blue, in scores of subtle hues, admits arrows of sapphin light. The red spills a hail of rubies into the cathedral's dimness. Diamondlike borders of white dots keep the chief col ors from crowding each other. Subsidiary greens, purples and golds help create an effect richer and more various than New England's autumn foliage...
Rock & Rye. In Pekin, 111., Tavern Owner Julius Barnes invited the jury to drinks on the house after it acquitted him of drunkenness, even though five cops swore that Barnes had taken one too many before he tried, with a hammer, chisel and ice tongs, to steal the old City Hall's 800-lb. cornerstone, which was rumored to contain a quart of 1884 whisky...