Word: icing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...reading and children-watching, with occasional water-skiing and village-strolling. Late one day she went on a shopping spree, bought a variety of silk blouses in greens and pinks, along with some velvet rope-soled shoes. She seemed just another mother when she took Caroline to an ice-cream party at the villa of an American friend, Dr. Judith Schoellkopf...
...Minot, "and whenever he sees an old lady doing nothing-talk to her." The Omaha World-Herald began a series on the city's 74 parks that could well last out the summer. The San Francisco Chronicle trumpeted an event that knows no season: HE FOUND LOVE IN ICE CREAM PARLOR. The Oklahoma City Daily Oklahoman and the Topeka Daily Capital sent photographers out for polar bear pictures...
Middle-Aged Spread. In just three years on the job, Clock has transformed the BBC into one of Europe's most imposing boosters of avant-garde composers, influencing orchestras, ensembles and musical societies all over the country. "The BBC breaks the ice," says London Observer Critic Peter Heyworth. "Once it performs a work, the floodgates are open." Clock's appointment to the BBC, Heyworth decided, was "the most exciting musical event in Britain in years...
...worked too well. One October night in 1960, as the powerful pulses from Thule's radar swept rhythmically over the icecap, back came strong reflections that showed as targets on the radar screens. This was just what BMEWS was built for. Warning of possible missile attack flashed across ice and tundra to the North American Air Defense Command at Colorado Springs; a frantic flap spread over the continent. Airbases waited for red alerts, their bombers poised on the runways. Roused out of bed at home in Moorestown, Holmes listened carefully to a telephoned description of the frightening signals...
...Heliogabalus sent i.ooo slaves into the mountains for snow to cool his gardens. Sweltering men have produced bizarre notions too: one 19th century inventor drew a fanciful suit of Venetian blinds, including a Venetian-blind hat. Various theaters and the Hungarian Parliament tried blowing air over massive amounts of ice...