Word: icing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Paris last week, shivering TIME correspondents could readily sympathize with the plight of the French in their frantic search for gasoline, fuel and warmth (see "Wave of Fear" in FOREIGN NEWS). Cabled Correspondent Thomas Dozier: "Outside the office in the Place de la Concorde, ice glistens in the gutters. Inside, the radiators are stone cold, and members of the staff are bundled to the ears in heavy sweaters and wool scarves, as they rub their hands together to keep typing fingers agile. Those who have finished work are queueing for buses and subways; nobody has enough gasoline to drive...
...dark figures, feet clinking with ice, shuffled across the frozen swampland, friendly Austrian voices greeted them and white handkerchiefs waved. All last week they came, every day thousands of refugees from stricken Hungary, peasant families, workers, students, young children with notes of identity pinned to their clothing. Once across the frontier ditch they would look back, and there would be a wild shouting of names. Women refugees kissed the first people they met, turned aside and wept. Men pulled off frozen-fingered gloves and shook hands...
...holder explained that the Russians developed their fantastic skating habits from the Czechs, who had the game years before the Soviets. "The Russians first learn to skate by playing a game called 'bandi.' It's similar to field hockey and played with sticks like field hockey sticks on an ice rink as big as a soccer field...
Spate of Punditry. Through receptions and cocktail parties and all kinds of informal gatherings, the diplomats deployed to meet the needs of the crisis. "Is anyone here still speaking to me?" a bright-eyed British noblewoman pertly broke the ice one day, whereupon she was warmly and immediately reassured. Well-mannered and well-indoctrinated young embassy spear carriers were ever ready to convince their U.S. opposite numbers that they had really invaded Egypt to stop the Russians. The higher-ups concentrated on background briefing U.S. columnists and pundits-many of them still awallow in the wash of the sunken Adlai...
What to drink is almost as large a question as how to drink it. A favorite is milk punch (a little sugar, brandy, rum or whiskey, ice, and milk 'til tasty). The thermos bottle set still swears by hot buttered rum (with a dash of bitters and a clove or two). The most effective standbys are vodka and any kind of juice which will disguise the alcohol (temporarily) from a dainty date...