Word: icing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...hearty. A typical menu: fried chicken, pole beans with lots of shelled ones mixed among the snaps, whippoorwills (brown peas), okra (fixed in a "made-up" dish with corn-bread crumbs and meats, so as to remove the slickness), corn, sweet potatoes, candied pears, eggbread sticks, biscuits, cake and ice cream. Most of the food is produced on the farm-but the milk comes straight from the Lebanon dairy, a fact that would have shocked the farmers of Sam Carver's generation. Joe (with a well-educated eye on the long-term balances of farm economics, insists that...
...9/26/55-Another plane just went over and still going. This is sure a hell of a way to go, Chuck, with nobody, having nothing, wanting everything. What a man wouldn't give for a drink of water or a big dish of ice cream...
Three people were aimlessly ice skating around Watson Rink at 10:30 on Tuesday morning. Watching them was Mrs. Maribel V. Owen, whom the HAA described last week as a "noted instructor." But she could do little more than shout a few words of encouragement to the one Harvard and two Radcliffe students who appeared for the ten o'clock session of the second day of figure skating lessons...
...prow of a gondola. Meanwhile, she worked hard to prove herself an expert mimic. She can skillfully play Cockneys, Scotsmen, Irishmen and Americans. Critics like her ("Her main gift is impertinence. Not only does she stimulate the libido, she also transmits charm . . . and is about as neurotic as an ice-cream cornet*"). The public takes...
...somehow that it was all right to have novels with people in them again-just like Tolstoy. The New Neanderthalers in The Thaw-bureaucrats, engineers, state artists-are not exactly people, but sometimes Author Ehrenburg lets them wonder in a dull-witted way why they are not. Perhaps the Ice Age of Communism might some day thaw. Savchenko, an engineer, even has a vision of the future: "Huge tractors rushing out into the steppe, then corn, lots and lots of corn . . . Anybody would feel happy in such a factory. And there are other things: there's Hamlet...