Word: ices
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...failure, dropped out in Labrador, and another landed by prearrangement in England. Every detail had been attended to: worldwide communications and weather services, precisely timed geographical check points, State Department clearance, stand-by refueling planes. For the flyers themselves, there was steak (cut into bite-size pieces), canned chicken, ice-cold milk, fruit juice, soup, freshly baked cakes, candy bars. At four or five strategic places along the route (the exact number is secret), the jet-age birds dropped down from their 40,000-ft.-plus altitude to drink in tons of fuel, delivered at prop-age altitudes by four...
...recent two-day thaw, most of the New England ski areas have reported poor to fair ski conditions. The rise in temperatures has turned most of the powder into ice and melted much of the base. At last report, conditions...
...concertmaster himself, Concertmaster Burgin's job moves along well-established grooves, but it was different under the late Serge Koussevitzky, whose famous, poetic perorations had to be translated into technical terms, e.g., how to make the violins sound like first love or the flutes like ice breaking...
...continuous creation of matter in the universe. Gold has also been responsible for a number of mechanical explanations of physical phenomena, having worked out the mechanics of a possible shifting of the north and south poles. The shifting of the pole is one hypothesis advanced to explain how ice once covered regions now in the tropics...
Marquis, who scored 15 goals in five games earlier this season, was one of the best individual players on the ice, but his consistent failure to pass to his teammates made it fairly simple for the Yardling defensemen...