Word: icing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Just as the music was beginning and Barbara Ann was set to flash onto the ice, the loudspeaker screeched. The racket might have unnerved a lesser competitor. Cool and calm in silver-braided chiffon, Barbara Ann waited easily, then, at the first musical note, was off with a sparkle of skates. When the last strain of Babes in Toyland had crackled away, and seven international judges had gravely conferred, Barbara Ann Scott was unanimously voted, for the second year in a row, Europe's champion woman figure skater...
Swamp conditions froze traffic around the Square and made sidewalks nearly impassable as a driving rain drove the 37 inches of snow, a record depth since 1930, into a nine inch layer of ice...
...storm has bombarded the area with a weight of 45 pounds per square foot, according to an estimate of the Blue Hills Observatory of Harvard, splitting the roof of Hollis Hall yesterday, and sending ice water cascading down the four story stair well...
...storm was ill-timed for exam harried students. Bounced, soggy posteriors and benumbed fingers found little succor in the hard seated exam halls. As one dazed undergraduate, whose name is withheld because he couldn't remember it, so succinctly summed it up. "We was got by the ice...
...substantial blanket not only reflects the sun by day, but traps any heat extant in the earth and pavements, depriving the air of warmth. This imprisoned heat is constantly eating away at the bottom of the ice sheet, the Observatory notes, and streams, sewers, and gutters are swelling by the hour...