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Word: icing (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...characters are somewhat exaggerated, and the most interesting of them is Falco, "the boy with the ice cream face," portrayed by Tony Curtis. Falco wants to climb the "golden ladder," to arrive "way up high, where it's always balmy." "Nice to people where it pays to be nice," Falco is assigned by J.J. to break up Suzy's romance. Since he won't get space in J.J.'s column until he does, Falco resorts in turn to blackmailing one rival columnist and procuring a prostitute for another in order to have an item smearing Dallas printed in the papers...

Author: By Walter L. Goldfrank, | Title: The Sweet Smell of Success | 3/16/1959 | See Source »

...credit of $25 per married couple instead of $10 per adult; he continued forgiveness on 1958 income as he shifted the state to a pay-as-you-go basis, but canceled forgiveness of capital-gains taxes. Finally, one midnight Republican leaders led Rocky to their Capitol hideaway, broke out ice and bottles, clinked glasses to victory...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Politician's Spurs | 3/16/1959 | See Source »

Even before the announcement could be made, the Elis were back in Harvard ice, and when Smith's second shot from exactly the same spot caught the same corner 23 seconds later, the turtle-shaped roof nearly blew off. With a 2-0 score after only 48 seconds, nearly everyone had visions of a Yale rout...

Author: By John R. Adler, | Title: Yale Downs Swimmers; Elis Tie Sextet, 5-5 | 3/9/1959 | See Source »

...Elis went ahead again at 1:17 of the second period, again on a 40-foot drive by Smith from center ice nicked into the right corner by Ed McGonagle...

Author: By John R. Adler, | Title: Yale Downs Swimmers; Elis Tie Sextet, 5-5 | 3/9/1959 | See Source »

...playing with a broken stick only four seconds after he had fractured it in a faceoff and been knocked off his feet. The Crimson held Yale off without a good-shot, and Bud Higginbottom quickly tied the score a 3 to 3 when he took a pass at center ice, turned the defense, and rifled the disk past Forstmann...

Author: By John R. Adler, | Title: Yale Downs Swimmers; Elis Tie Sextet, 5-5 | 3/9/1959 | See Source »

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