Word: icing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...receive the Britannia. Later, in the state dining room, where a U-shaped mahogany table was set with crested white bone china, the royal couple and their 56 guests sat down in Chippendale chairs for a lunch of soft-boiled eggs on mousse of foie gras, garnished chicken, strawberry ice bombe, three wines...
...Mounted Police, Hudson's Bay traders, and dog sled; to reach Eskimos in Canada's Western north, Inuktitut will print a separate edition in the Roman characters familiar to that region. The magazine must go out in spring before the Arctic thaw, in summer after the river ice has melted, in fall before the freeze, and in winter before the curtain of the Arctic night...
...best-in Oh, I Can't Sit Down and It Ain't Necessarily So-she gives the familiar lyrics a delightfully carbonated tingle all her own. Previn and his men swing behind her as discreetly as a trio of hula dancers skating on thin ice...
...rabid porcupine, William Connor of London's spicy Daily Mirror (circ. 4,500,000), who writes as Cassandra, watched 1½ TV performances of a U.S. pianist visiting England in 1956, then upquilled. "This deadly, winking, sniggering, snuggling, chromium-plated, scent-impregnated, luminous, quivering, giggling, fruit-flavored, mincing, ice-covered heap of mother-love," fumed Connor of Wladziu Valentino Liberace. "He is the summit of sex-the pinnacle of Masculine, Feminine and Neuter. Everything that He, She or It can ever want...
Room at the Top. A Tenzing among social climbers ice-picks his way to the top of a grim British industrial town...