Word: icing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...they skated into Chicago hellbent on making it four. The 20,000 home-town fans who had sardinepacked themselves into the 17,100-capacity Chicago Stadium sat in mute agony as the Hawks fell behind 2-0. Hull could do nothing. Then in the third period, Chicago warmed the ice. And minutes later, with the score 2-1, the Rangers were penalized a man. It looked like Hull's chance. Up went an expectant, hopeful cheer...
...pair entered the store. One of the men moved toward the cash register. The other ordered three Harvard students watching the TV at the front of the store to get to the rear. An other, who was buying ice cream, was also ordered to the back...
...Rusher originally came to the area to join the Skating Club of Boston. In 1963, she placed third in the Silver Skates Championship now she confines her ice activities in judging...
...Ice Trays & Plastic Bottoms. Most of the country's flowers-and many of its newest varieties-are developed by wholesalers who cater solely to the burgeoning number of suburban garden markets. Among the new leaders is Vaughan's Seed Co., which quit the mail-order business four years ago, now grosses $10 million, as compared to Burpee's $7,000,000. Vaughan's flies pollen all the way from Guatemala to fertilize flowers in California, buys tulips from Holland, begonias from Belgium, amaryllis from Africa...
...change is also under way to tidy up the practice of gardening, make it as simple and antiseptic as picture taking. Begonias now come ready to bloom in individual paperboard containers, geraniums can be bought in plastic bedding boxes that look like oversized ice trays. Both the plant and its cube-shaped root cluster can simply be pulled out of the pots, plopped into the ground. Rose bushes arrive in brand-new aluminum foil containers with plastic bottoms; the backyard gardener simply snaps off the plastic bottom, lowers the container into the ground without ever soiling his hands. Because rose...