Word: icing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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These two facts you left out of your article, and they are far more important than 800,000 square miles of land and ice and $70 million which Denmark owes the U.S. investors. It may be true that it is "more dollar exchange than Copenhagen can easily raise," but . . . this is more than a question of national pride and dollars. It is a question of vital significance to all small countries in the world. They have been given the impression that the United States fought for the same principles that they themselves believe in; but if the United States...
When Rodzinski stopped, flushed and spent, there was half a minute of pregnant, almost audibly gestating silence. When the Philharmonic's board chairman finally spoke, it was as if a thin sheet of ice had been carefully cracked. And what, said he, had Mr. Rodzinski decided? "Give me 24 hours to think it over," said Rodzinski, and left for home...
When the executive got fed up with these contrivances, he could hop to the other, or "play" side, of the desk. There he would find an electric refrigerator with three ice trays, a cabinet for bottles, decanters and glasses, a personal combination-lock safe. Properly fortified, the executive could return to the "business" side and to the desk's most dazzling feature: a magnetized pen holder. The executive need only place his pen close to the holder, let go and the magnet would suck the pen into place in the holder...
...Navy had not flown far inland. The blank space beyond the South Pole was still the haziest, most mysterious area on anyone's map. It might be a featureless ice plain or it might be ridged with peaks higher than Mt. XRay...
...Navy gives way to the Antarctic winter, mapping planes may try to find out if Antarctica is really a single continent. Two deep indentations, the Weddell Sea and the Ross Sea, poke toward one another through its frozen heart. Are the seas connected by a strait choked with eternal ice? This, says Rear Admiral Richard E. Byrd, is "the world's greatest unsolved geographical puzzle...