Word: icing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...defense of the New Frontier's own honor. Rousting four Justice Department aides out of bed to accompany him, the Attorney General and three dogs set out at 5 a.m. along the towpath of the old Chesapeake and Ohio Canal. Where the path was not slick with ice, it was gooey with mud, but Bobby's scuffed Cordovan oxfords never faltered...
...just to loosen up." By the 35-mile mark, all four aides had dropped out. but Bobby completed the 50 miles alone in a respectable 17 hr. 50 min. And next morning he rose at 7:30, made it to 9 o'clock mass and then went ice skating with his children...
...anthropologists, man is the child of the Pleistocene ice age, that period beginning roughly 1,000,000 years ago when he was forced to adapt to fierce variations in climate, and when the brutalities of nature hastened his evolution from the apes. Dating the period precisely has always been difficult. On land, erosion has obliterated almost all trace of the Pleistocene's earliest glaciers. On most parts of the cold, quiet ocean bottom, where remnants of prehistory have survived, ancient sediments have piled up too deeply for convenient study. The cylindrical cores that have been brought up have...
...Ericson favors a theory that holds that during the ice age the sun went through periods in which it generated less heat. It recovered during the warm interglacial periods and melted most of the glacial ice. But there is no guarantee against another relapse. Modern man may be enjoying an interglacial period that may end at any time. When the chill returns, it will probably send many modern species to join the discoasters...
Smith's tie-breaking marker was followed in less than two minutes by another tally, giving the varsity a 3-1 advantage. Clearing the puck past mid-ice, defenseman Dave Johnston slapped a pass to Tim Taylor near the blue line. Taylor waltzed around the B.C. secondary and jammed his shot past Apprille...