Word: icing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Undefeated Freshman and Jayvee hockey teams will precede the Varsity to the Arena ice today, as the Yardlings take on Arlington High School at 2 o'clock, and the Junior sextet follows in a game with Newton High...
...city's population withered, but the garrison stood fast. A year ago the Communists attacked across the lake's frozen surface, were repulsed in a savage, three-day battle when the ice broke under them. After that, Yungnien boatmen chopped out a wide moat. The Communists sat tight at the artificial lake's boat approaches, and inside Yungnien the stores of grain ran out. Deficiency diseases appeared, and the city swarmed with germ-spreading vermin...
...also drifted toward one another on the other side of the globe, pressing into the Pacific. Their Atlantic shores remained much as they had been before they separated; but the Pacific shores crumpled the earth's crust ahead of them, like the bows of ships plowing through thin ice. Thus were formed the still growing, earthquaky mountains which ring the Pacific today. When the crumpling broke a hole through the solid crust, hot "magma" burst to the surface, building a volcano...
Blaming adult misdeeds on childhood frustrations is a widely popular excuse among amateur Freudians. Nonetheless, church & state still hold a grown person responsible for his own sinful and antisocial acts. Hollywood is cutting figure-eights on dangerously thin moral ice by suggesting to its huge mass audience that an unhappy childhood not only explains but somehow excuses a lady's indulgence in bitchery and murder...
...recording this fact the author supplies six successive childhood memories, each followed by a digression in genealogy, i.e., the story of mankind. As achievements in gentle claptrap these sections are all too imitable, as were the sections of Van Loon's previous books which they imitate. Example: "[The ice age] was the period during which the human race went to school, for it was a question of invent or perish. And, as nobody likes to perish (the experience is so uncomfortably drastic and final), people began to use their brains and became great inventors...