Word: icing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...waxes or wanes, so will much of the economic life of the Empire grow stronger or weaker. Through more than 400 subsidiaries operating more than 800 factories in 37 countries (notable exception: Soviet Russia), Unilever dominates the world's soap and margarine businesses. It also sells ice cream, baby food, rubber, cocoa, salad oil, lye, paper, candles, copra, perfume, toothpaste, vitamins, fish, silks, cattle cake, fertilizer...
...present the College food saving program consists of eliminating desserts at the noon meal, breads at night, cookies and cake with ice cream, and the cutting out of all wheat cereals. These measures were approved by more than two-thirds of the College students in a poll held...
...Washington to do something was an angry cry of incredulity at an impossible, intolerable situation. In the eyes of most U.S. citizens Harry Truman's Administration had bogged down in ludicrous futility. Pointing up the fact on countless front pages was that silly picture of the President eating ice cream...
Government factfinders, running into brotherhood demands for such rules changes as ice water for cabooses, free cleaning and pressing of uniforms, desks for passenger conductors and proposals that would result in seven days' pay for one day's work, threw up their hands...
...whales, nimbler than U-boats, dove out of Asdic's sonic beam, and the gunners had to rely, as of old, on their knowledge of whale psychology. Radar was useless for spotting surfaced whales, which gave very poor "pips" on its scope. Even at locating antarctic ice it was none too useful in the hands of the whalers' semi-trained operator...