Word: icing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...also wonder how those ice-cream whites would look after a washing without being able to press them or iron them. Besides the dress uniform will never be as practical as the present blues because after a hectic liberty all you have to do is take them off, turn inside out, fold neatly and stow them away in your locker. Then next liberty take them out, brush them off and they look just like...
Dislocation, Complication. The big problem is: can production really get started under such a program? In agriculture, every new price ceiling has caused a new dislocation; the U.S. has alternated dizzily between meat shortages and grain shortages, between a shortage of ice cream and a shortage of butter. In industry, the problem is vastly more complicated...
...huge U.S. Army-built air base near Churchill, on the western shore of Hudson Bay, a whistle shrilled through the ice-cold, early morning air. Before eleven weird, tanklike "snowmobiles," a group of men snapped to attention. They listened as Brigadier R. O. G. Morton, Canadian Army commander of the military district, told them: "The ground you will cover is historic. Brave men have given their lives there for the advancement of the race." He finished with a command: "To post!" The Canadian Army's "Operation Musk-Ox" was under...
...salutes from two 200-year-old cannon. They rumbled on, down the sloping banks of the frozen Churchill River and across. Finally they disappeared into the treeless Arctic wastes to the north. For a long time the thudding of their 120 h.p. engines came back across the ice. Five hours later a radio message from Commander Baird reported that the "snows" were 36 miles out. In the 80 or more days they would be gone, they would be supplied by four Dakota Transports (C-47s) and seven sturdy, single-engined Noorduyn Norsemen...
...stuck close to the Big Green during the first period, Captain Bill Ayres and his teammates were clearly no match for the fast skating and solid checking of the Hanover aggregation. Time and time again a Crimson forward would break away with the puck, and race unsupported down the ice, only to lose it as the Dartmouth defensemen combined to eliminate him before he could get a shot...