Word: icing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...spectacle combines the glitter and grace of an ice show, the hell-for-leather horsemanship of a rodeo, the martial pageantry of a Veterans Day parade, and the breath-stopping violence of the St. Valentine's Day massacre. The men are ruggedly masculine, and the girls are worth bringing binoculars...
...squanders her family's meager monthly handouts on dining at a cafe or on rides in a hansom cab. After befriending an agreeable demi-prostitute and paving the primrose path for her grandson, she develops a haphazard taste for TV, movies, horse races and ice-cream sundaes. She eventually sells off her furniture, buys a jaunty little car, and finances a Communist cobbler who yearns to open a self-service shoe store. Before death overtakes her, the cheeky septuagenarian has lived two lives-one being the long years of servitude as daughter, wife and mother, the other made...
...ice-breaker came at 11:23 of the second period after Harvard's defense was caught upfield. Kassamali picked up a long pass at midfield and bore down on the Harvard goal alone...
After an awkward silence, he clinched it. "The only thing I can think of," he said, "is ice cream...
While study of the Greenland ice sample continues, the Army drilling team has already packed up and head ed for Antarctica, where it plans to bore through the southern ice sheet to reach layers estimated to be as much as 90,000 years...