Word: icing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Early one morning last week, a pert young blonde stuck her head through a rinkside doorway at Philadelphia's Arena and called to a friend across the ice...
...certainty. Around the smooth curves of a figure eight pretty Pre-Med Student Albright floated through her intricate gyrations. She was careful to lean so that she rode on only one edge of her hollow-ground blades, careful to switch from edge to edge without "flatting," i.e., scraping the ice with both edges at once, careful always to give the appearance of complete control...
Even the sound of the skates gliding along told the judges the difference between a missed "change" or a smartly executed maneuver. So the five judges listened to the whisper of steel on ice, watched Tenley's flashing feet, her graceful arms and shoulders as she kept her delicate balance. And after each figure the judges skated out to inspect the size of the circles cut by Tenley's skates, the accuracy of her retracings, the telltale scrapings that signified "flats...
Ronnie quietly skated his best amid the furor, then decided to leave all future amateur hassles behind. For a guarantee of $100,000, he signed a two-year contract with John Harris' Ice Capades...
...sure until U.S. Navy airplanes recently explored the region between the South Pole and Wilkes Land. According to Dr. Paul A. Siple, just returned from Antarctica, the flying explorers found a great sloping trough 200 to 300 miles wide between a high mountain range west of the Ross Ice Shelf and a dome of ice. The trough leads south from the coast, and its high inland end may reach the South Pole (see map). During the Antarctic winter, says Dr. Siple, the high interior of Antarctica becomes extremely cold. Its heavy, cold air flows down the sloping trough like water...