Word: icing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...disapproved of, the old man dramatically clutched his own throat in demonstration. After that, the dying monk staggered into the courtyard, where he showed remarkable stamina by surviving four more bullets before the prince beat him to death with a club and the plotters tossed the corpse into the ice-filled Neva River...
...well over $200 million yearly. Lyons started processing its own food to ensure quality for its restaurants, has gone on to become one of Britain's biggest food producers. It dominates the British bakery field with its 14 bakeries, is winning an increasingly large part of the ice cream market. The firm also markets soft drinks, stores a million bottles of wine in a cellar beneath Southwark, runs five hotels and a 1,000-car parking garage under Hyde Park...
...three other principals of Hello, Dolly! were at the party. How come none of the other 68 troupers who had been perking up the troops in South Viet Nam were invited? By way of retaliation, snipped Merrick, "I cut the ambassador dead-left him a floating island of ice in his sea of protocol." Still, the ambassador did pretty well standing on his protocol floe. After Mary warbled through ditties from South Pacific, Lodge whooped into Minnie the Mermaid ("She forgot her morals down among the corals"). Later, the State Department reported that Merrick had made a slight mistake...
Harvard was down, 20 to 0, before quarterback Pete Berg broke the ice on a four-yard end run in the second quarter. B.C. put the game out of reach, however, with two quick six-pointers once the second half started...
Three passenger pigeons, captive in the Cincinnati Zoo, were still alive when the wild bird was shot in 1900. The last of these, a female named Martha, died in 1914 at the age of 29. Her body was frozen into a 300-lb. cake of ice, and shipped to the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, where she still perches under glass, a plumed reproof to man's destructiveness...