Word: icing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Crimson was ice cold from the floor, hitting only about 37 per cent, and far less than that in the first half. The home team hit 48 per cent from the floor, and placed five men in double figures...
...carmine red as an intestinal tracer. Cases of cubana salmonellosis in three other states were traced to carmine red, and supplies were called in. So far, so good. But authorities have been checking other places for carmine red, knowing that it is a favorite coloring in candy, chewing gum, ice cream, cough syrups and drugs. Manufacturers like to use it because of a legal quirk: being a natural rather than a synthetic product, it does not have to be mentioned on labels...
First, Vinson lies 400 miles due east of remote Byrd Station, and only 600 miles from the South Pole. Second, Antarctica is racked by fierce (up to 90 m.p.h.) gales and covered with ice up to 14,000 ft. thick; the temperature, even in the middle of summer, can drop to -40°. Add to that the fact that no man had ever before set foot on the slopes of Vinson-and the laconic announcement from the U.S. Navy base at McMurdo Sound had to qualify as a masterpiece of understatement: "A U.S. climbing party planted the flags of twelve...
...brain about as subtle as a Mickey Mouse watch, less hair on his head than Sean Connery has in his left nostril, and a blithe belief that some fine day, if he faithfully munches his cornflakes and says sir to his superiors, he will become the sort of ice-cold secret operative who has vodka in his veins and comes out of his frightful experiences shaken but not stirred...
...tone of the third period was set early, when Nichol made an insulting gesture toward the crowd as he skated onto the ice...