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Word: icing (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...matter how Oregon went, the returns would not cut much ice at the Philadelphia convention...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Balance of Power | 5/17/1948 | See Source »

...morning last week Annie was up & about, to get breakfast for a son and daughter and Bert Hadley, for whom she keeps house. Then she got into oilskins, rubber boots and sou'wester, rowed a mile and a half through the bay's ice floes to haul her lobster pots. She rowed to the collecting smack to sell her catch, then headed home again. There she milked the cow, fed it and the horse, did the barn chores, and before cooking lunch got in a few licks at a fence she was fixing. In the May-to-October...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Canada: NOVA SCOTIA: Annie's Day | 5/17/1948 | See Source »

...young flax and green wheat grow on the plain of Waterloo. In the midst of the battle monuments, which include a cast-iron British lion glowering toward the French frontier, a humble seller of ice-cream cones, Jean Boewet, last week spoke his mind...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE NATIONS: Toward a United Europe | 5/10/1948 | See Source »

...planned his campaign over sodas at an ice-cream store. With four other kids (none of them Fort Hamilton students), he set out in a stolen car that was loaded with rifles and ammunition he had stolen earlier from a Coney Island shooting gallery. Everything went according to plan. A little after 9 one boy, disguising his voice to sound like a girl's, had phoned Teacher Jokiel. A few minutes later the others drove past the Jokiel house. "Shoot!" Anthony ordered them. "Show you're not chickens." When the shooting was over, the boys abandoned the stolen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Gunfire in Brooklyn | 5/10/1948 | See Source »

Police had first experimented with dried-ice extinguishers, but then called on the fire department, disregarding the suggestion of owner John G. Simon '50 that they toss the seat into the Charles...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Car Blaze Routs Cruising Student | 5/10/1948 | See Source »

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