Word: icing
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...safe and comfortable planet, and they say that space is a hostile environment. This is not really true. Earth is protected by its blanket of atmosphere, to be sure, but it is a disorderly place, and unpredictable. It is full of storms and winds, of fogs and ice, of earthquakes. It is also full of people -people with thermonuclear bombs...
...result, the studio is clogged from week to week with such odd items as a World War I airplane, a collection of vintage automobiles, a chunk of a 17th century galleon. Bellemare draws on a seemingly inexhaustible supply of Brawn, goes after horse jumpers, crossbow experts and ice skaters (Amateur Skater Roger Tourne broke the 500-meter record for France on the show) as well as conventional runners and jumpers. But, says he, picking Brains "is a more difficult business...
...away. Nerves tingled as each heart-leaping minute of the countdown squawked over an intercom box. At 9:42 a mournful warning horn sounded from the launching area. Two red warning lights blinked steadily. The white rocket fumed and smoked, growing whiter and colder under the pebbled casing of ice caused by the subfreezing liquid oxygen. The service structure moved away on its tracks...
...economists would agree with him that the economy's health in 1958 depends on consumer spending. But a recent University of Michigan poll of consumer attitudes across the U.S. indicated that Reuther's proposal for pepping up consumer spending is about as sound as prescribing ice packs for a man with a chill. The poll snowed that 1) well-heeled U.S. consumers are more reluctant to make big purchases than they were a year ago, and 2) the reluctance stems largely from discontent with high prices. Reuther's wage boosts would tend to push prices upward, making...
...Hartack, unlike many of his colleagues, weight is never a problem. He eats outlandish combinations of foods?potato chips, pickles and ice cream, for example; yet he seldom needs to glance at a jockey's sweatbox. Nor does he need much sleep; no matter how late he bids his date good night, he sits up for an hour or two examining the past-performance charts to prepare himself for the next day in the saddle...