Word: icing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...member of Dudley Hall may use the cafeteria, taking advantage of what Hansbury terms "cheaper meals and better quality than can be obtained anywhere else." The menu includes a special hot plate at 40 cents, soup, sandwiches, milk, and ice cream or pie, all of which is prepared at Adams House and then taken by truck to the cafeteria...
...Interior. Although he works like a piston, Cap Krug is still largely untried in the tougher aspects of his job. But he learns fast and has a stubborn core. One of seven children of a Madison, Wis. policeman, Krug worked his way through the University of Wisconsin by toting ice and baggage, carpentering and working in a filling station. At 30, he was TVA's manager of power operations, went from there to OPM as chief power consultant. When OPM was absorbed by WPB, Krug went with it. In 1944, he was commissioned a Navy lieutenant commander, served...
...like the opening scene from Lost Horizon. En route from Munich to Marseilles, a U.S. Army Dakota plane had been caught in an Alpine downdraft, had crash-landed on the Wetterhorn, in a yawning ice bowl just ten miles from Switzerland's famous peak, the 13,670-foot Jungfrau. Marooned at 9,800 feet on the slopes of Rosenlaui glacier was a curious company of twelve people, including an eleven-year-old girl, four women (three were wives of U.S. generals...
Tired Like a Dog. "Harvey is a nice guy too. He gave me his second last cigaret. ... He was walking between two of my men, tied to the rope. Suddenly beneath his feet the snow and ice had vanished, a deep crevasse was open. We got him up, just like that, in a moment. I was surprised to see that he still had my ice ax firmly in his hand. ... It is rare that a greenhorn has such presence of mind. I'm tired like...
...just returned from his first visit to America), Governor Chang Chun of rugged Szechwan Province (best known city: Chungking) is China's closest approach to a universally popular political figure. A stocky 58-year-old who looks like an American Indian and who loves bright neckties and ice cream, Chang heads the "Political Science Group," which wants a modernized, industrialized China on a broad, democratic base. Chang has been a Kuomintang executive since 1928, is no left-winger but is equally opposed to the Confucian conservatism of Chen Li-fu. This week the newspaper Ta Rung Pao reported that...