Word: icing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Near Collins, Miss. Buddy Wolfe, a Negro, dropped in to a highway cafe for a cup of coffee. Deputy Sheriff John Lewis dropped in at the same time, opened the ice box and demanded to be sold four pounds of lard. Lewis thought he overheard someone in the cafe make a critical remark. In the scuffle that followed Buddy Wolfe, father of ten, went down under a blackjack, was shot thrice. Last week Lewis was also free under $2,000 bond. The charge: murder...
Characteristically, he made the most of his time by boning up on world history and becoming the camp champion at Chinese checkers, ice skating, long distance walking, woodcutting. He bore the federal government no rancor. Said he: "I am enraged." But he added: "I am coolly enraged." He knew he still had the heart of the people...
Between 6,000 and 11,000 feet, a thunderhead is a maelstrom of vertical drafts which can toss a plane up or down at the rate of 4,500 feet a minute. Above 14,000 feet, the rain turns to ice and the storm becomes a white blizzard...
...Black Widow planes take off each day to fly in the hazardous clouds. Guided by a radar control station called Ivy, and attended by a host of balloon-borne instruments, they measure air turbulence, the velocity of up-and downdrafts, temperature, pressure, humidity, 'cloud heights, the size of ice particles. Though no planes have been lost, they have taken a fearful buffeting; one pilot, whose instruments were knocked out by lightning, found when he fought his way out of the storm that he was flying upside down...
Peter: "We love sweets like babies, we don't love no lumps of cheese, and tough bread, no we just like to eat soft stuff, soft bread, soft ice cream, soft chocolate, soft mush, soft potatoes, soft jam, and peanut butter, we don't except at a little meat we don't really chew. . . . Soft eats make soft...