Word: ices
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Temperatures plummeted to well below zero last night, and broke thermometers in Old Maine, where the official reading was minus 30 degrees. Here in Cambridge milk bottles shatter regularly, and ice on the sidewalks has turned to stone...
...fellows on the ice gave the distinct impression that they were anxious to get back to the books or bed, and the only development of real importance was what has hopefully been called a bad shoulder bruise to Lyle Guttu, who left the rink during the first period...
...figured Bob had kicked it in. "I didn't even touch it," said Bob, audibly and even right-eously. Even! But he did get two assists, and some rabble in the south end of the rink asserted from time to time that so long as Cleary is on the ice, he always gets an assist when a goal is scored. The Boston journalists suggested that Harvard Square be renamed in his honor...
...informal life can be as important as its parliamentary procedures. When Knowland first became majority leader, Lyndon Johnson once dropped by his office for a drink and a chat. Knowland had one bottle on hand, which he kept in a refrigerator. He had no corkscrew, and his ice trays were frozen fast from long disuse. Bill struggled futilely for 15 minutes, trying to get the cork out of the bottle. Lyndon finally dragged him upstairs to his own office-"where we know how to open bottles." Now Knowland keeps a well-stocked refrigerator for thirsty colleagues. Such concessions to Senate...
Last week, at the height of the season, 6,500 well-heeled guests crammed every room in St. Moritz' 47 hotels. They schussed down the powdery slopes overlooking the little valley, tried the Olympia Ski Jump, which drops a perilous 200 ft., hurtled 1,346 yds. down the ice-banked Cresta Run, one of the world's first artificial toboggan slides (built 1884) at better than a mile a minute. Evenings, the women doffed ski suits for Dior and Balenciaga gowns, and bobsledders slid into tails to mambo through the night. Others simply spent their time quietly breathing...