Word: icing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...chance to fight back at the annual "take-off" skit in the fall. George, a stuffed penguin, attends all Bertram Hall jamborees as mascot and chaperone, and the table at Eliot Hall's annual Christmas punch is graced by a home-frozen bowl chopped from a chunk of ice...
Obviously, concludes Brown, the earth's poles were once in different places. Siberia was warm, and the mammoths fattened on greenery. But little by little, ice accumulated near the cold poles. Then, to balance the mass of the ice, slightly off center, the earth toppled over. The oceans sloshed out of their beds. When things quieted down, the earth was a sad mess, rotating on a new axis. The North Pole, settling near Siberia, quick-froze the mammoths...
...says Brown, the thing is about to happen again. The ice in the Antarctic is getting thicker and heavier. The earth is wobbling. Soon the great slosh will come. Most of mankind will be drowned and the rest will enjoy new climates...
...there no hope? Yes, says Brown. For only $10 million, expeditions can be sent to the Antarctic to measure accurately the accumulation of ice. Then the dangerous excess can be removed by atomic blasting...
Christina Stead's prose is as hard and cold as a cake of ice. A sharp-eyed Australian now living in the U.S., Miss Stead specializes, with the murderous calm of a hangman slightly bored by his job, in dissecting egotists and connivers. One of her better novels, House of All Nations, was a long, superbly documented description of the world of high finance, which viciously satirized the European big money and led some critics to compare her, rather prematurely, to Balzac...