Word: icing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...What an incredible, easygoing place the Senate is!" he wrote. "As I stood in the lobby a boy in knickerbockers walked by with a carton of ice cream and a cardboard spoon...
...ragged gash in the snow near the 11,000-ft. summit of Wyoming's blizzard-swept Elk Mountain. For two days, ground parties fought 75-mile-an-hour winds to reach the peak. When they did, they found flight 14, scattered over a quarter mile of rock and ice. The dead: 21. The cause: unknown...
...bombing, Captain Eddie was less specific. But he was sure that such a program is "well within the reach of potential execution [although] we may have to stretch a little in the reach." Difficult questions left unanswered: Can an atomic bomb penetrate 1,800 feet of hard-packed, flintlike ice? How long would the minerals continue to be dangerously radioactive...
Captain Rickenbacker was not the first to eye the polar icecaps. Hiroshima's dust had hardly settled when English geophysicists suggested that polar icecaps might be blasted away entirely and, since the glaciers are tag-end relics of an all-but-ended ice age, the icecap would in all probability never reform. Some years ago an Australian geophysicist, Sir Edgeworth David, speculated on what would happen if the Antarctic icecap were dissolved. Sir Edgeworth concluded that the world's sea level would rise about 50 feet (others calculated as much as 100), inundating every seaport; climatic zones would...
Coach Murray Murdoch's squad, bolstered by the return of several pre-war stars, boasts victories over Princeton, Cornell, Army (twice), and Dartmouth, with losses to Dartmouth and Montreal University. They handed the high-riding Indians their first intercollegiate ice defeat in 49 games...