Word: icing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Wednesday's woman is really Wednesday's child. She is a kept waif, chug-a-lugging champagne from the bottle like Coke, sticking out her tongue as if hunting a refractory driblet of ice cream...
...leaving the steps on Weeks Bridge unshoveled, the parties to the agreement believe that Harvard students can be given a chance to practice the slalom on the banks of the Charles. The footbridge over Soldiers Field Road is being fitted as an ice-skating rink, and the sidewalks near Kresge are being left covered with snow so that students can limber up by dodging cars in the street. The pile of snow blocking the gate to the parking lot will be left for people to use as a ski jump. Such cooperation between the University and state authorities is indeed...
Last week on Michigan's Lake St. Clair, William R. Perrigo, 46, climbed into the cockpit of his 24-ft. Thunder Jet and rocketed around an eight-mile course to win the International Skeeter Class championship. A printing-company president, former commodore of Wisconsin's Pewaukee Ice Yacht Club, Bill Perrigo sails a 38-ft. Inland Scow in the summers, is an expert on both water and ice. But stepping from one to the other, he says, is a little bit like a glider pilot learning to blast off in a jet. While he was practicing three weeks...
...reach, though, the wind produces a vacuum on the lee of the slightly slanting sail. This results in a strong forward force. As the sail pushes forward trying to eliminate the vacuum, an iceboat can attain fantastic speeds -up to five times the actual wind velocity. The ice sailor hauls in the sheet for more and more zip, aims his boat with a tiller that controls the front runner. Then, sometimes, he prays...
...grinding pigments, a hydrogen-oxygen motor, and a speaking machine "capable of pronouncing the Lord's Prayer, the Creed and Ten Commandments in the Vulgar Tongue." To improve the British climate, he suggested that the navies of the nations of the Northern Hemisphere band together to push the ice masses of the polar regions into the southern oceans. He was the founder of the famed Lunar Society, consisting of a group of scientific eccentrics whose habit of meeting by the light of the full moon, reputedly so that they could see their way home after dinner, eventually gave rise...