Word: icing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...tomorrow morning, we will have to ford a much more forbidding body of water--the Abraham Lincoln Square Lake, which forms at the intersection of Cambridge Street and Broadway whenever Cambridge is visited by a heavy snow. This inland sea (one of several in the area: the Freedom Square Ice Floe is almost as impressive) is every bit as man-made as the one in Arizona-Nevada, for it results directly from the inability of the Cambridge sewerage system to carry flood water into the Charles and the failure of Buildings and Grounds crews to keep Yard drains clear...
Crossing the Abraham Lincoln Square Lake without proper equipment simply means soaked, frozen feet and possibly pneumonia. A more frightening hazard in the aftermath of a winter storm is the falling of great chunks of snow and ice from rooftops and eves of University buildings. The only warning one may have of impending death from the sky is a cracking noise above and a flash of white...
...Yalies did give coach Cooney Weiland's skaters a scare last week in the Boston Arena. Playing way over their heads, the Elis hustled all over the ice in losing 6-5 before a predominantly Crimson audience...
...newspaper to newspaper, he impudently courted libel suits with his inflammatory editorials against slaveowners and traders. Convicted in one case, he spent 49 days in jail. Urged by a fellow abolitionist to calm down, Garrison snapped: "I have need to be all on fire, for I have mountains of ice about me to melt." In 1831 he launched his newspaper, The Liberator, which so infuriated the South that the Georgia legislature offered $5,000 reward to anyone who brought them Garrison...
Ferris added that because the count was made during the iced-tea season, contamination could have resulted from "someone sticking his fist in the ice bucket." Other possible causes of the unacceptably high count were the use of unclean utensils or infected tea leaves in the preparation of the tea, or allowing the tea to stand at room temperature for several hours...