Word: ices
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Eight times Seattle pulled out all the stops to welcome home a boatload of "rotating" G.I.s returning from Korea. The standard welcome program: brass bands, free theater tickets, ice cream, candy, a performance on the wharf by bathing beauties, swivel-hipped hula girls, and prancing cancan dancers. The boys thought it was great stuff, but some of Seattle's moms didn't. They wrote letters to the papers, buttonholed and berated officials to complain about the show the girls put on at dockside...
...philosophers who still rely on strict, logical proofs of the existence of God, a British Jesuit has a bit of advice: save your breath. Says Father Vincent Turner in an article in Britain's highbrow Roman Catholic quarterly, the Dublin Review: "Traditional theistic argument no longer cuts any ice...
...weakness of the Columbia dates from the ice age, when a glacier blocked its deep canyon and forced it to cut a new channel. The river returned to its old bed after the glacier retreated, but the temporary channel (the Grand Coulee) is still there, a spectacular, steep-walled dry valley that leads to a cluster of level, irrigable plains...
...women are intending to return to their native land to lead the rebuilding movement. While here, though, Mr. Rim finds the hospitality and the spirit of friendship pervading the University very enjoyable. "I am very happy with the people here. The only trouble is that I eat too much ice-cream...
...fourth time this year, sharply demanded that Russia hand back 672 lend-lease ships and settle up her $800 million wartime account with the U.S. (the Russians are willing to give up only two ships, both stuck fast in Siberian ice...