Word: icing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Owen made one of the best plays of the night when he stole the puck at mid-ice, raced around the defense, and tallied through Levin's feet at 11:13. Crehore scored the fifth goal six minutes later, and Dave Holmes, playing for Nicholas when the latter was cut above the eye, converted John Copeland's long shot at 12:20 of the final period...
Defenseman Mario Celi scored two of the five, both unassisted, to add a brilliant offensive touch to his fine defensive play. On his first he intercepted a Dartmouth pass at mid-ice and raced past the defense to tally at 7:02 on a 15-foot backhand shot...
Leaning low over the blue-white ice of Lake Misurina, the Soviet skater was a study in scowling concentration. Forgotten was the happy camaraderie of stadium ceremony. This was why he had spent bleak, cold years of practice back home at Alma-Ata, this was why he and his Olympic teammates had come to Cortina: to whip the world...
...subaltern of 19, Lewis himself was blooded-hit in the back "oddly enough by an English shell." During the postwar decade, first as a starveling poet and then as tutor at Magdalen College, he felt something else at his back-the Hound of Heaven. He fled over the shifting ice floes of intellectual fashion: rationalism, realism, idealism, materialism. Still the Hound pursued, and Lewis was finally backed into a corner that became home...
...from his bookstore job. Gordon at last gets a bellyful of real poverty. He spends most of his time lying on a foul mattress and staring at the ceiling. He watches the bugs march in stately procession round his garret-but not very often, because the room is so ice-cold that the bugs feel cozier in the woodwork. At this point of the story, Novelist Orwell has more than driven home his point: "To abjure money is to abjure life." Man's first duty is to get himself "bound up in the bundle of life," to fit himself...