Word: ices
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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There was mail this time. Vag took out the letters--then looked down at the wooden rack below to see if the man across the hall had gotten his Esquire yet. The brown envelope was lying on top of a magazine. It was thick and heavy, like the package ice cream came in, and it had Vag's name typed on it in bold capital letters. Vag ripped it open and looked inside. There was a book, a big book with a tasteful cover. "Career," it said. Vag put it under his arm and padded back up the stairs...
...Swords of Ice." It was not a very encouraging study. U.S. troops, defeated in a great battle, had established a new line in the lower part of an Asiatic appendix. China was under complete Communist control. In the two years since he became Secretary, the U.S. had become entangled in a paradox: insisting that its real concern was Europe, it nevertheless now had virtually all its effective soldiers in Asia. Europe, instead of being reassured by all the earnests of U.S. help, was filled with doubts and suspicions...
...months of '49 and '50 with what Columnist Stewart Alsop last week called the President's "silly optimism" and Johnson's "dark guilt." Certainly Mistake No. 2 had left the State Department, in an old Chinese phrase, armed with "spears of straw and swords of ice...
Promising sophomores looked fine. Walt Grecley made one think of his big brother Dick, and it was a pleasant reminiscence. Jim O'Brien looked good as the third defenseman. White, no sophomore but a new man on skates, was the best scrapper on the ice...
...necessary to curtail or even eliminate all college practice and most college games in the '51-'52 season, and to throw out all high school hockey. Expansion of a union among Garden and Arena employees has led to an expense of nearly $1,000 per day to keep ice in both buildings on a 24-hur schedule...