Word: icing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...provides two or three bedrooms, a living room which also serves as a dining room with a kitchen in one end, and a bathroom with stall shower. A two-burner electric plate furnishes heat for cooking, while room heating is provided by an oil burner. Two small non-electric ice-boxes are furnished to each family. Top monthly rent for a three-bedroom unit is $35, for a two-bedroom unit...
...University, the tutorial system, is threatened; new concepts of the old truism, intellectual balance within the student body, spread doubt that a worthy theory will be applied. The faculty may already be committed to the General Education Plan, but the undergraduate body stands at the shore, doubtful that the ice is strong...
...going off to fight has always been. This scene and that of the campfire on the eve of Agincourt where three Englishmen spell out for their king what war is all about--that it is not gaudy trappings and caparisons, but fear and mud and obscene smells--early an ice-cold shock of recognition for a world that has just got another war under its belt...
...time he had been released on $10,000 bond (with a warning not to go within 200 feet of any navigable water), it was apparent that any specific evidence against the young Soviet officer was being kept strictly on ice. In Washington, a naval commander offered to bet that the Yellowstone "had no more top secrets than my desk." Politicians began asking out loud if Redin was perhaps really connected with an atomic spy ring...
...could take whatever line it pleased. But to go on doing so belied a Good Neighbor's concern for neighborly action. Some Latin American diplomats hinted that if the State Department did not change its tune, the "Pan-American system" would go on ice for six years (i.e., as long as Perón was President). The question was how badly the U.S. wants hemispheric unity. For hemispheric unity could not be had without including...