Word: ices
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...delegate to the Republican Washington state conventions of '46 and '48, I feel compelled to say this: the Republican Party, as represented by Taft, Wiley, Smith, Hickenlooper, Cain, McCarthy, Martin, "Bertie" McCormick and Hearst, is on mighty thin ice. The weight of sound logic lies with the Joint Chiefs of Staff, the U.N. and Truman...
This week, Air Force technicians wound up their investigation, announced the cause of the extraordinary accident: ice. Flying through moisture-laden air, the eight downed craft had picked up so much ice on the intake screens of their engines that it cut off the air, caused engines...
...told that I was charged with sabotage, espionage, conspiracy, and the smuggling of Hungarians out of the country. Whenever I seemed to approach exhaustion, I was given coffee and cigarettes. They obviously contained strong stimulants . . . I was slugged over the ear once and dumped naked into a tub of ice water. I began to have hallucinations. The picture of my wife kept flashing before me. At the 70th hour I fell from my chair...
...identity of a dead fellow Pole in the concentration camp, comes to the U.S. to claim her friend's child and fortune. She marries the boy's guardian and moves with him to the house on San Francisco's Telegraph Hill, where the boy and his ice-blonde governess are already installed. Soon Valentina is asking herself a familiar Hollywood question: "Is my husband trying to kill...
...handkerchief. The engine kept throwing oil on the canopy, so I couldn't see too well up ahead. The wings were leaking a little gas, and I didn't want to make any rough landings. But if anything had gone wrong, there was all that ice instead of water to set down...