Word: icing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Barrels of ice water awaited the thirsty on the Louisiana State University campus. At L.S.U. stadium, where 10,000 assembled to watch the inaugural ceremonies, there was free food & drink for all-200,000 hot dogs, a quarter of a million buns, 8,000 gallons of buttermilk, a quarter of a million bottles of root beer, Coke and "red soda...
...message to Maurice Thorez, saying the door remains wide open . . . Gaston Palewski [one of the general's chief aides] has stated he is ready to engage in conversations with Jacques Duclos' chambermaid . . ." Newsboys brandished their headlines like victorious flags. "No more cold war," cried Franc-Tireur, "the ice is broken...
Abolition of the Jayvee hockey team was a special case because ice is not available in Boston for the skaters next winter. "I'm not even certain we can secure ice for the Varsity," Bingham added...
Patients were not required to return for a second visit. Some died (of diabetes); others developed the sores of diabetic gangrene. One little boy was told by the kindly old doctors that it would be quite all right for him to eat ice cream again. He went to a birthday party, ate heartily and sank into a diabetic coma...
...public love of all that is "sweet, smooth, and outwardly appealing." Bread, which was once the crusty staff of life, is now "half-masticated . . . before reaching the mouth," and caters to the taste which prefers fruit juice to fruit, chopped meat to a cut off the joint, mashed potato, ice cream, and a host of packaged powders which water turns into infinite varieties...