Word: icing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...years, and the stiff white shirt front would be back once more, a gleaming and irresistible target for females with an urge to write with lipstick. Between the last tick of 1945 and the first tock of 1946, U.S. citizens would consume enough alcohol to float a rinkful of ice, and the thin, happy bleat of paper horns would echo from time zone to time zone in pleased disregard of the atomic age and all waiters...
...cold facts about Russian wartime activity in the fields of ice and snow were thoroughly warming to one man: Meteorologist James E. Church, president of the International Commission of Snows & Glaciers. He reported...
...Soviet Institute of Frozen Ground, which has prepared an atlas of frozen-ground areas throughout the world, had built up a wartime ice cover on the Moscow reservoir so thick that ordinary bombs could not damage it. A top dressing of evergreen branches kept the ice from melting until midsummer...
...first game of organized hockey in the U.S. was played more than 60 years ago at St. Paul's School, near Concord, N.H., and no St. Paul's grad has ever let anyone forget it. On the black ice of Lower School Pond (it's a bad year when the ice won't bear by Thanksgiving and last till Washington's Birthday), 400 of St. Paul's 437 boys play on 30 intramural teams, on six outdoor rinks, under a dozen assorted coaches. Hockey has always been the school's major sport...
Next spring, when the ice drifts offshore and northern sea communications are reopened, the islanders will go to the polls for their first national vote in 14 years. They will select 50 members to represent them in a National Convention which in turn will choose a form of government and refer it to a referendum...