Word: icing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...night before the wedding, bride & groom dined alone with their families. The next meal they would take together would be as man & wife at the wedding breakfast in Buckingham Palace, where a three-course austerity menu of fish, partridge and bombe Elizabeth (ice cream) would be served...
Until this spring, all they had on Moe was a jaundiced eye and a 1942 federal rap for perjury. He was fined $2,000 for denying the purchase of some hot ice from a New York source. Then he tried to do business with Mrs. Sayde Genis...
...carelessness and poor judgment. He had taken off from Foynes, Eire, 3,600 lbs. overloaded, with two extra passengers aboard, on his own hook, because some of his fares were babies "and they couldn't weigh very much." As the Sky Queen headed west into wind and ice, he kept no systematic check on his fuel consumption, let his crew stand watches as they...
...letter to Chatham County Commissioner Judge James T. Houlihan, Miami Forecaster Grady Norton spelled out his suspicion. Aerial seeding of the hurricane with dry ice might very well, he claimed, have diverted the storm from its course (500 miles out at sea, headed for Bermuda). The joint Army-Navy-General-Electric experiment (an attempt to break up the storm), Weatherman Norton explained, might have been at least partly responsible for the storm's abrupt left face and subsequent heavy march through Florida and Georgia...
...that artificial factors had anything to do with the development of the hurricane. There have been other hurricanes which behaved just as erratically." In fact, there was a hurricane back in 1906 which did just about the same thing, "and that was long before we ever heard of dry ice...