Word: icing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Korea one evening in April 1953, the light breeze brought from the enemy ridge line the faint sound of men chanting in strange and mournful chorus. Outposted on Pork Chop Hill, the handful of Americans and South Koreans listened, then finished their chow of steak and ice cream, and listened again. "What does it mean?" asked Pork Chop's commander, Lieut. Thomas V. Harrold (Easy Company, 31st Infantry). "They're prayer-singing," the interpreter said. "They're getting ready to die." Harrold felt uneasy. "Maybe we ought to be singing...
Therefore, if Reider can finish far enough ahead of Bogan and Hogen, and Schlaeppi and Norris can finish with them, McLean and Wharton, by breaking up Yale's final three finishers, could ice the meet for the varsity...
...hungering for assignments, often working all night, happily going three days without sleep to cover the Baltimore fire of 1904. "You could no more have a 40-hour week for a good newspaper reporter," says Mencken, "than you could for an archbishop." Those were the days "when an oldtime ice-wagon-driver city editor might come down in the morning with a hangover and fire a man simply because he was in bad humor." It was also an era when a pressagent was regarded as "a loathsome creature," suffering "a subtle corruption of the mind...
...Abilene, Ike made his first money selling homegrown vegetables (tomatoes were 5? a pound). And when he got his first job pulling ice, loading wagons and firing furnaces in the Belle Springs Creamery (working his way up to night foreman), his friends made their headquarters there, drawn to Ike by qualities they still describe as "horse sense" and "keen sense of humor." In 1910, suddenly conscious of his own aimlessness, Ike heeded a friend's advice and took an examination for Annapolis and West Point. (The Navy lost a future admiral because he was eight months...
...resulting touchdown nine plays later--scored by Simourian on his favorite play, the quarterback keep--seemed merely to ice the Crimson victory. But Brown's passing led to another Dartmouth score a minute later. The play, coming as it did at the end of the game, was reminiscent of Claude Benham's spectacular efforts for Columbia last week, with one difference. This week, the Crimson had a two-touchdown, rather than a one-point, lead...