Word: icing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...almost anything can happen without drawing a crowd. But even Washingtonians were impressed one blazing afternoon last week by a pastoral scene near suburban Olney, across the District line in Maryland. The throb of hooves on turf, the click of mallets on willow root balls, and the clink of ice in highball glasses were enough to identify the occasion as a polo match, but the diplomatic license tags and the Caddies and Jags that outlined the field indicated that it was of more than passing interest. The interest, in fact, was focused almost entirely on the sidelines...
...just the same. What has changed, in hot war and cold, is the audience. Today's playgoers, themselves survivors of some close shaves, can sympathize more feelingly, even in the shadow of a mushroom cloud, with generic George Antrobus as he survives not only a war but an ice age, the Flood, and his own folly as well...
...door, purrs off into the California night with his waiting date. They may drop in on some of Sinatra's current set of friends-the Bogarts, Judy (Garland) and Sid Luft-or munch a steak with Montgomery Clift & Co. Frankie loves the clink of ice in well-filled glasses, and the click of Hollywood's oddballs in a well-filled room. But everybody has to go home, sooner or later, and the moment comes sometimes when Frankie is left alone-the thing he seems to hate the most in life. If that should happen, he may ring...
...city square. Venus smiled on the square for twelve years, during which Siena was visited by plague, civil war and invasion. At last, blaming her for the flood of troubles, the people superstitiously destroyed Venus and dumped her fragments on Florentine soil. Still, all over Italy the ice of ignorance was beginning to break up. Scholars were studying ancient manuscripts; artists found inspiration in classical art, with its emphasis on the human form; architects began to see that Rome's awesome ruins showed the work not of sorcerers but of men like themselves...
...plant or animal dies and ceases to take up fresh carbon 14, the radioactivity of its substance should decline with the passage of time. If the decline can be measured accurately, it will tell the age of the carbon-bearing object, whether it is an Egyptian mummy or an Ice-Age peat...