Word: icing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Yardling ice squad has been cut to 22 for today's match with New Prep, second of the season. Center Joe Kittredge and left wing Doug Anderson will probably switch positions on the first line in an effort to form a better working combination...
...Peruvian air force plane with a rubber water tank, personally flew off to sprinkle a fat cumulus cloud over the Andean foothills. Rain fell, but it was in an area where it often rains at this time of year. Next day, Pedro was in the air again, with dry ice, found a cloud over the desert. The dry-ice ejector got stuck...
...while, Venturo was spending almost as much time at Lima's airport as at the Agriculture Ministry. For his next try, Pedro was negotiating last week with a commercial airline for a larger plane which could carry water and dry ice, as well as photographers and newspapermen. Although the desert had not yet bloomed, Peruvians had faith in Rainmaker Venturo. Said one Limeño: "The public shouldn't get disappointed-remember Salvarsan is called '606' because the discoverer failed the first 605 times...
...afraid of the champ. At 33, the battle-scarred Negro, who looked like Jack Benny's Rochester, had seen so many ups & downs that one more wouldn't hurt, either way. He had quit the ring several times. In those intervals he had driven an ice truck, mixed cement, gone on relief at $9.50 a week to support his wife and six kids. But once he got a chance to fight Louis, Jersey Joe Walcott (his unferocious real name was Arnold Raymond Cream*) went about his preparations thoroughly. He studied movies of Louis' fights, like a football...
...That man is truly ethical," he has written, "who shatters no ice crystal as it sparkles in the sun, tears no leaf from a tree, cuts no flower. . . . The farmer who has mown down a thousand flowers in his meadow to feed his cows must be careful on his way home not to strike off in heedless pastime the head of a single flower by the roadside, for he thereby commits a wrong against life without being under the pressure of necessity...