Word: icing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...game, racking up a five-run lead at the end of three innings, they were unable to stem the tide of a five-run rally in the fourth by Dunster, which went on to score two runs in the fifth and sixth innings to put the game on ice...
...shone brightly and ice melted on the Wannsee last week, the bottom fell out of the coal black market. The professionals, most of whom had saved little, tried frantically to muscle in on the vegetable business, which was already tightly organized. But Klaus, who had regularly sent money to his family, calmly prepared for his law exams. A TIME correspondent asked him how he felt about studying law half the time and breaking it the other half. Said ex-Paratrooper Klaus, with impudence but not entirely without reason...
Since January, blizzard after blizzard had struck Eire, until three-quarters of the land was covered with a two-foot layer of granite-hard ice. There is a tradition that on March 17 Saint Patrick turns "the stone warm side up" to make the soft, drying west wind blow over Ireland. Two days before the Saint's day, a thaw came, but with it a ten-hour fall of rain and sleet. Ireland's rivers boiled in swollen anger, flooding the lush valleys in Meath, Carlow, Athlone, Cork and Wexford. In Kilkenny town the floods were the worst...
...pleasures by creating a Press Club, and soon a teen-aged horde was released on any loose celebrity around. When Harry Truman visited Chicago last spring, Val suggested to her boss that the Press Club interview the President. "Little girl," said he, "go out and buy yourself an ice-cream cone." But Val talked her boss into it, and Truman agreed. Her conference was the only one the President gave in Chicago. Said Val: "It was precedent-breaking. It made history. It was keen...
...Geez," sighed the admiring sound-effects man, "whatta warmup!" The comedian had long since expressed his contempt for his own skill in that field: "Warming up a studio audience is like warming up dry ice. When you've done it, what have...