Word: icing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Marvita has just about time enough to complete her job this season. Soon the Arctic ice would seal in the Labrador coast for the winter...
...celebrating began in Philadelphia. "It's wonderful," cried the banquet guests, and plunged into fried chicken, roast beef, short ribs, fish, seven vegetables, five kinds of bread, ice cream in three flavors, and two cakes. Edna, half a foot taller than the groom, sat quietly at the head table with two red roses in her hair. The happy couple moved on to Newark for another spell of rejoicing. Edna wore artificial gardenias. Over the banquet board glowed a neon sign: "God's Holy Communion Table...
...riflemen from the Hindu Kush and turbaned tribesmen from the rocky plains along the Oxus crowded the theater to watch Maria Montez hiss and writhe through Cobra Woman. At the café, Afghans tapped pointed shoes in time to a blatting jazz band while they guzzled imposing quantities of ice cream and soda pop. Kabul's young beaux wore U.S. zoot suits (but their girls went veiled...
...eastern markets since "anything becomes a delicacy if it is moved far enough." Even harried WAA officials took time out to join in the fun. Their proposal: start carbonated water through the pipes in Texas, spike it with bourbon in Kentucky, route the piped highballs through the "ice mines of Pennsylvania, and so to the bars of Manhattan...
...included some kind words which said that passengers' fear of the cold, ice and snow of the north Pacific route and the lure of Hawaii as a way-point in the mid-Pacific route may well give Pan Am the advantage. What it mentioned scarcely at all is that the Northwest Passage will cut the flying distance from New York to the Orient by 1,000 miles. Northwest also will do most of its flying overland, where reassuring emergency bases can be built...