Word: icing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...motorcade, complete with screaming sirens. Best of all was the state banquet, held in the candlelit Bali Room of the Hotel Indonesia. There, while Javanese maidens crooned native melodies, Sukarno fed his guests three French wines and six full courses-including sto Bandung (a rice stew) and a flaming ice cream dish titled bombe glacée Afro-Asia...
Surgeons listened in wonderment when Dr. Irving S. Cooper first described his "ice scalpel" and a new way to shoot liquid nitrogen through the brain to freeze part of the thalamus as a treatment for Parkinson's disease (TIME, July 6, 1962). Now, Dr. Cooper's cold is surgery's hottest technique - a tool for treating a dozen or more conditions in all parts of the body...
Mintkenbaugh worked for a while in his family's ice cream parlor at Campbell, Calif., then was summoned back to Berlin by "Paula," who gave him orders that led to a job as courier between Russian agents in the U.S. and Johnson...
...accelerate the behemoth up to 63 m.p.h. in 9.7 seconds, faster than some sports cars, and the four-wheel disk brakes can stop it on a pfennig. A pneumatic suspension system keeps the car on an even keel through the sharpest curve, invisible wires in the rear window banish ice and frost, and a poke of the finger simultaneously locks all four doors, the trunk and the gas tank...
...sixth deck, about 115 ft. from the playing field (v. 45 ft. for the average bleacher seat), range in size from 24 to 54 seats, and cost from $15,000 to $32,000 a year to rent. Behind the boxes are one-room "suites," each with refrigerator, ice maker, bar, toilet, a closed-circuit TV that broadcasts Dow Jones averages, and a six-foot butler decked out in gold and orange...