Word: icing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Beebe, one of the many pre-war Crimson hockey greats to dominate the B.A.A. squad, was high scorer with two goals and two assists. He notched the gameclinching seventh marker halfway into the overtime frame on a solo spurt from mid-ice, after drawing Jack Lavalle out of the Crimson nets...
...Unicorns, with a previous 6-1 win over the Chasemen, showed greater ease and speed in skating, and profited from their longer experience on the ice. Superior teamwork kept the Crimson even until halfway into the final period, when they tired and allowed the opposition two quick scores and victory...
...pulverized. But Britain and the Continent were gripped by their worst cold wave in decades. Before it finally eased off somewhat this week, it had seriously added to Europe's manifold miseries. Icy blasts from a high pressure area over Scandinavia struck through crumbling walls and patched clothes. Ice creaked in Venice's lagoons, and gondolas carried snowy canopies. Sicilian roads were blocked by snow. In Stockholm, 100,000 people had the flu, including Crown Prince Gustaf Adolf...
...Paris, the poor huddled in the metro and the rich, wearing overcoats, huddled in the Crillon bar. The statuesque stone Zouave emerging from the Seine at the Pont de l'Alma wore a girdle of solid ice around his midriff. The soft silk draped around slender mannequins at Molyneux's, Lanvin's and Worth's felt as cold as the Zouave's ice. The Paris Models' Union announced that the wages for its members posing nude in unheated studios would be upped 30? an hour, effective "as soon as the model complains of chair...
Yardling grapplers and swordsmen emerged victorious in Saturday's three-pronged attack on Exeter by respective 16 to 12 and 12 to 6 margins, while the '50 mermen were submerged 29 to 37. Because of unsuitable ice conditions, the hockey teams did not meet...