Word: icing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Nostalgic G.I.s in the audience licked their PX ice cream cones and marveled that a man could be so close to home 6,000 miles away. Their tabi-soxer* friends chewed gum (U.S. style) and snickered (Japanese style) at the strange way some of their sisters made a living...
...calf. It was all legitimate, however. The father, Imperial Regal Heritage of the Jersey Island Jerseys (he had left home on the last ship before the Nazis moved in), achieved his parenthood through artificial insemination over the longest distance yet recorded. Sealed in two thermos jugs and packed in ice, the Imperial Regal sperm (diluted to serve 100 cows) took the long way round to Australia. It was flown across the Atlantic in a British diplomatic pouch to prevent its being opened and spoiled by unsympathetic customs...
...blonde, bulging, overbearing, with a broad, white face, narrow, calculating eyes and a smile like the flat glare of an electric light that turns on & off at the touch of a switch. She leans with both elbows on the table and in a loud and domineering voice orders ice cream from the tired German waitress, while the boy follows her movements with a young dog's eyes. Outside, in the lounge, is a group of German war brides who will take off in two hours for America. Among them is a mother with a baby in her arms...
...intend to marry him....Now look, Joan, I've known you for a great many years and you've never been a gold digger in your life. I just don't think you've got it in you. So when you go accepting expensive ice from this guy I know there's something up. So you might as well spill it, baby. ... All right, dear, you've given me your answer by indirection....By the way, I hear you're adopting two more children. How old are they this time...
...Mormon trail was a cruel road. The Saints began crossing the coffee-colored, ice-littered Mississippi with their cattle and goods in February. Many drowned. Many died on the plains beyond...