Word: icing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Jubilee Committee elections in the past have featured such campaign stunts as the swallowing of 13 goldfish and the consumption of 29 ice-cream cones at a single sitting...
...Many thanks for the ice cube trays. They arrived in good shape. Now, I want to get a pair of shoes for our bureau's faithful chauffeur. I am enclosing the outline of his foot without shoes...
Toynbee begins his investigation far down in the pit of history, when the Ice Age ground Europe beneath a creeping glacier. The plains of North Africa and the Middle East (now deserts) were then fertile, supporting a thick population of hunters and their prey-aurochs, oryx, etc. Among these hunters lived the progenitors of one of those broken bodies on the rock ledges of time-the Egyptiac civilization. Later, the ice retreated. The plains turned into deserts. The game fled. The hunters, too, had to retreat...
...Prague last week the inveterate optimism of those who regard international sports as international cure-alls was justified for once. An Austrian ice hockey team accomplished what statesmen had tried in vain-to make the Czechs love their former masters...
...just seem to be writing off the top of their minds. Why, when people have discovered Partisan Review on the shelf, their eyes have lit up with pleasure, and as you know people's eyes don't light up any more, what with the dawn of the ice...