Word: icing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...weeks of victory famine for the Varsity skaters ended abruptly on Saturday afternoon, when they braved five below zero temperature, unfamiliar outdoor ice, and a hostile Williams sextet to emerge with a 5 to 1 victory on the enemy's rink...
Rough natural ice and the unusually small Williams rink hampered the Crimson attack in the early stages, and it was not until 3:31 in the second period that Myles Huntington registered to equalize the sole Williams goal. HARVARD (5) WILLIAMS (1) Sears lw Healy Key c Huntington McKean rw Bonson Greeley rd Ratcliffe Washburn ld Owen Lavalle g Pynchon...
...Medal-Pinning. Though the appointment had been in the works for weeks, most Britons were taken somewhat by surprise. Sir Oliver and his wife are so little inclined to the social side of diplomacy that an acquaintance once remarked of their infrequent parties: "One always has to break the ice-and when one does, one finds a lot of very cold water underneath...
...hour later, the ice-shrouded, gutted building had cooled. Inside, firemen found charred bodies, some of them piled near windows, others still in bed. In all, 33 had died. It was the worst fire in Newfoundland since the K. of C. Hostel blaze claimed 100 in 1942. Two years after the Fire Department and City Council had recommended fire escapes for Hull Home, the city began an inquiry to find out why they had never been installed...
...spoon out. "Mrs. Snyder," he notes, "the woman who has been called a Jezebel [came] stepping along briskly in her patent-leather pumps. . . . She has a good figure. . . and I thought she carried her clothes off rather smartly. . . . Her eyes are blue-green, and as chilly looking as an ice-cream cone...