Word: icing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...line basis for a fee ranging from $5 to $25. And many parents give their consent for an operation only because they know that if a doctor does not do it, some school chum is ready and willing. All she needs is a fat sewing needle, a couple of ice cubes (for numbing the lobe), and some thick white thread to keep the breach open...
Apparently, every Wellesley class has a class color, and a class motto, and a class racing shell (for use on Tree Day, but that's another story), and a class tree, and a class flower, and probably a class ice cream flavor. Everyone at Wellesley is expected to know these things, and a girl would probably be put on pro if she didn't collapse with laughter at the mention of lemon juice or larch bark. All of which is a bit puzzling to an outsider...
...forecast last week that progress toward change will be achieved by next spring, and that the talks will be widened to include the smaller IMF members outside the Ten. That estimate is optimistic, but even France's Finance Minister Valéry Giscard D'Estaing admitted: "The ice floe on reform has at last broken. People are now ready to talk business." Perhaps it was symbolic that, in their off-hours Fowler and Federal Reserve Chairman William McChesney Martin played a brisk match of tennis against Giscard and his deputy, André de Lattre. Score...
...view is never the same. Climate is an affair of the soul as well as the body: today the sun sears the earth, and a man goes limp in its scorching. Tomorrow and yesterday sullen rain chills bones and floods unpaved streets. Fire and ice... the advantages of both may be obtained with ease in the black belt. Light, dark, white, black: a way of life blurs, and the focus shifts...
Technology of Haste. Boorstin approaches the problem region by region. In New England, he finds, adaptation required a monumental psychological change. Poor in natural resources, the New Englander exploited his native resourcefulness. "New England," ran the popular taunt, "produces nothing but granite and ice." So energetic New Englanders, making an economic virtue out of a geographical necessity, harvested their rocky hills and frozen ponds, virtually created the markets for their products, shipped granite to Savannah and New Orleans, ice to Persia, India and Australia. The same restless and ingenious spirit drove New England manufacturers who developed specialized machines to replace...