Word: icing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Brickley reported after the examination yesterday that the 22-year old Gardiner had ice skates fastened to his feet. Lieutenant Edward L. Connally of the Lower Basin Division M.D.P., surmised that the third string football center and Varsity stroke oar had gone through an ice hole hidden from the moonlight in the shadow of a bridge farther up the river...
...clock on the evening of January 23. Since that time while Maine and New Hampshire State Police and detectives from the New York City missing persons bureau carried on the search, the family's greatest fear was that he had attempted to return to his Eliot House room by ice...
...Chicago Black Hawk swung the first punch and Detroit's Red Wings shook off their heavy gloves-the better to bash an enemy nose. Reinforcements swarmed on to the ice from both benches; Referee Frank ("King") Clancy, who wasn't mad at anybody until he got slugged by a zealous spectator, began swinging too. For twelve minutes, with no cops in sight, there was bedlam last week in Chicago's jampacked Stadium...
Afterwards, everybody felt better. Until then, pro hockey just hadn't been its old unruly self this season. The 1947 accent was on razzle-dazzle attack, not rough & tumble. The man of the year - Maurice ("The Rocket") Richard - was not the biggest thug on ice but a shy fellow with a sure...
This week Richard (pronounced Ree-shar) put on his 12 Ibs. of shin & shoulder pads, ankle-length underwear, skates and stovepipe pants, skated onto the ice before Montreal's largest hockey crowd of the season (12,674). Once during the evening, against the arch-rival Toronto Maple Leafs, the crowds got what they came to see. There was a pass, a swift attack by Richard on the cage, a flick of his stick; and The Rocket had scored. The stands rang with cowbells, cheers and whistles...