Word: icing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...other sports are not so popular. When the hockey leagues are organized on December 18, not such a large turnout is expected. Some of the dorms will probably have to combine forces to be able to put a sextet on the ice for every game. Similar situations will arise with some of the other sports as well...
Train to the Ukraine. A short, stocky man with dynamic energy and ice-cold grey-blue eyes, Serov stayed behind the scenes, but his techniques were soon noticed. Soviet security police and a new Hungarian force, called the "R troops," began picking up more young Hungarians. Anyone over 14 years of age was a potential victim. They were taken to the large Vermezoe subway station, where an army detail of 120 men drove off frantic parents. Below ground the youths, boys and girls, were herded into boxcars which were moved out in the dead of night. A train drawing...
...life, George Frederick Rowbotham, one of Britain's most noted brain specialists, took charge. He had no hope of saving her unborn child, but he hoped to save her life. As his patient's temperature began to rise dangerously, he had her swathed in bags of ice and dosed her with drugs. Her temperature fell to 85°, where it was kept off and on for weeks...
...examining and rejecting 29 different locations. They were looking for a valley surrounded by mountains which would serve as a shield against local radio noise. They also wanted a location far enough south so that the telescope's unsheltered antenna would not be exposed to wind, snow and ice. Green Bank filled the bill admirably. Radio noise in the valley was only a thousandth of the noise at the Naval Research Laboratory radio telescope in Washington. Moreover, Green Bank was distinguished by the fact that no commercial aircraft pass over or near it. Its quiet inhabitants occupied themselves raising...
...trying to emulate heavy-handed Soviet official art, Communist (and Unreconstructed Stalinist) Rivera too often turned out work that, in years gone by, he could have painted with his toes. His versions of Polish bricklayers rebuilding Warsaw and of collective brigades clearing ice from a waterfront in Czechoslovakia are drab and hackneyed. Like his politics. much of his new work bears the overwhelming burden of the Communist line...