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Word: ices (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...know it -- he just happens to be staying at the same hotel as Mrs. Clinton. "Everyone is in their own place and it works very well," the director of the Intercontinental Hotel told AP. But those looking for a historic thaw should keep an eye on the ice machine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Don't I Know You From Somewhere? | 5/14/1998 | See Source »

...Geneva, and the hotel heating is making Hillary Clinton thirsty. She slips out of her room and heads down to the ice machine. A tall, broad-shouldered man is filling his own ice bucket. He turns as she approaches, and in their first moment of shocked mutual recognition, the First Lady realizes this is an encounter that could make all that messy Whitewater business be forever forgotten...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Don't I Know You From Somewhere? | 5/14/1998 | See Source »

...center of the plot is the Terrestrial Axis Straightening Company, which plans to reposition the globe so that the Earth's climate will be universally benign, like everlasting spring ("Polar bears will soon have to use artificial ice"). In Astor's view, "this period--A.D. 2000--is by far the most wonderful the world has as yet seen." But the world has grown too small, which is why the book's main characters take off for Jupiter in a spaceship equipped with booster rockets. "The future glory of the human race," concludes Astor, "lies in exploring at least the solar...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: History: Can The Millennium Deliver? | 5/11/1998 | See Source »

DIED. ELDRIDGE CLEAVER, 62, former Black Panther firebrand and prophet of black empowerment; of undisclosed causes; in Pomona, Calif. While serving a jail term for assault, Cleaver took up the idea of black power and penned Soul on Ice, his radical 1968 polemic on black rage. He joined the Black Panther Party on his release. Two years later, after a gunfight with police in Oakland, he fled to Algeria, Cuba and Paris, living in exile for eight years. Abroad, he embraced fervent anticommunism and evangelical Christianity. Addiction to crack and petty crimes followed his return...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones May 11, 1998 | 5/11/1998 | See Source »

...early years of the Black Panther Party, ELDRIDGE CLEAVER was a one-of-a-kind charismatic revolutionary who understood the politics of the human-liberation struggle. Party members called him "Papa" or "the Rage!" Fresh out of prison, he became a literary giant with his book Soul on Ice. Eldridge put his heart, mind and soul into the 1960s movement, but in the early '80s, I read that he said the party should have never existed. He tried to contact me, but I refused to speak with him. One day his ex-wife Kathleen called me to say Eldridge wanted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Eulogy: ELDRIDGE CLEAVER | 5/11/1998 | See Source »

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