Word: icing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Good Skate. In Banff, Alberta, Dr. Pat Costigan got an urgent call while playing hockey, bolted from the ice, delivered a baby girl, swooped back within the hour to help his team...
...Missouri, Kansas, Indiana and Ohio, temperatures fell to freezing as the blizzard laid a sheet of ice and left a trail of wreckage over the land. The night it hit Milwaukee it was going 60 miles an hour, spitting lightning and roaring like Aeolus. Milwaukee stopped breathing. Streetcars, buses, automobiles stalled; in many cases their passengers slept in them. People were trapped everywhere-a phenomenal number of them in bars. After twelve hours, the fire department was snowed in; snowplows could not budge through the 10-foot drifts. Five people who tried to buck their way home through the shot...
...ice-coated breakwater near Northwestern University's campus at Evanston, Student Dwight Cook watched the 20-foot waves pound in from Lake Michigan. Suddenly, one licked him out of sight. In Chicago, the blizzard sent pedestrians sprawling, snapped power lines, broke windows and stopped traffic. Thunder hammered across a sky that flashed red, purple and orange. For good measure, the dust from Texas arrived to turn the snow yellow and brown, and started Chicagoans searching their Bibles...
Monday's tilt with Arlington revealed unexpected power in the Freshman second-string line, which pulled the team up by its ankle wraps after a slow first period. Left wing Larry Ward, right wing Gid Loring, and center Haven Abbett were easily "the outstanding line on the ice," Coach Stan Priddy stated after the contest...
Yardling and Jayvee pucksters scraped the Arena ice clean yesterday afternoon as the Fiftymen, led by newly elected Captain Dave Abbot, lengthened their winning streak with a 6 to 5 victory over Arlington High School, while the junior sextet thrashed Newton High School...