Word: icing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Rushed Ice. At many of the city's hospitals, auxiliary generators quickly conked out?or were not available to begin with. At Bellevue, sewage began to back up into the basement when pumps failed, finally reached a level of H in. Police, firemen and volunteers rushed dry ice to hospitals to keep stored blood from spoiling, sent generators to those that needed them, rigged electrical heart-pacer machines to auxiliary power, and hand-pumped iron lungs. A delicate corneal transplant, a five-hour craniotomy, and a caesarean section were performed under light from makeshift sources; five dozen babies were delivered...
...semi-final battle, Eliot was knotted in a scoreless tie with third-place Kirkland at the end of regulation time. Kirkland broke the ice in the first five-minute overtime, but Eliot repeated an earlier overtime win against Kirkland by scoring twice in the second overtime...
...specific proposals an observor noted "the ice is breaking...
...Just as Ahab was obsessed with the mystery of existence, Pizarro is haunted by the emptiness of being. Both are horrified by the blank, impersonal face that the universe turns to them. Played with stormy authority by Actor Christopher Plummer, Pizarro lashes his men through an ordeal of fire, ice and fear into the serene court of Atahuallpa. They are greeted as gods, and prove the bloodiest of devils. In a slow-motion ballet of contained fury, the actors mime the slaughter of 3,000 Peruvians within an hour by 167 Spaniards...
...argued like a Bolshevik, dressed like a bum, drank like a culvert, smoked like an ad for cancer, bragged that he was addicted to onanism and had committed an indecency with a member of Parliament. He slept with any woman who was willing, subsisted largely on a diet of ice cream sodas mixed with ale instead of seltzer, and all the while belabored the general ear with wild and wonderful hwyl, as the Welsh call eloquence...