Word: icing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This week Russia was still picking through the bare bones for industrial loot. When Red Army men carted off machinery from the Mukden ice plant, the city's new Chinese mayor, Tung Wen-chi, protested to the Russian garrison commander, Major General Andrei Kovtun-Stankevich. A man of remarkable statements (see INTERNATIONAL), the Soviet officer blandly replied: "The Red Army is very powerful. I cannot stop them...
...from-crowded Chicago Arena, blond Figure-Skater Gretchen Merrill did the "change loop," the "three change three," the "back bracket change bracket." Five judges, stooping over the ice, solemnly scrutinized her "print" for signs of cramped, uncertain or distorted figures. Then their decisions were tabulated and averaged. The verdict: Boston's 20-year-old Gretchen was still the best. It was her fourth national...
...what it will do with the millions of tons of ships it cannot use or sell. As insurance, which it considers cheap, it hopes to keep at least 20,000,000 tons in "standby" condition. Estimated cost (in the Commission's own winning words): the price of one ice-cream soda a year for everyone...
...brother Bob, he built his own 507-lb. sled in a Republic Steel foundry -the only bobsled with all-steel runners, steel body and shock absorbers. He took a leave from his engineering job, spent weeks practicing. One week he thundered down Lake Placid's twisting mile of ice 31 times. He had cameras set up at each turn, at night studied the movies like a football coach looking for faults. The night before the A.A.U. four-man bobsled championship last week, he was at it until 10 p.m., walking the course, inspecting every angle, every little bump...
...toss their bankroll out of a porthole. Forced to scrub decks and clean cabins for their passage, they nevertheless arrive in port possessors of a map disclosing a hidden gold mine. The rest of the action takes place for the most part amid deep drifts of Hollywood snow (shaved ice and raw white corn flakes), as Hope and Crosby, assisted by a talking fish, a talking bear, a dynamite-carrying dog and Santa Claus and his reindeer, mush their Malemutes through a Klondike blizzard of paradox and punning...