Word: icing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Peninsula near Scandinavia to the Chukotski Peninsula opposite Alaska. Crews of some 1,000 medium Badger bombers and 200 heavy Bisons have been training hard at airborne refueling operations, are currently rated on a par with U.S. SAC crews. Some of these planes have been seen landing on floating ice islands, which the Russians maintain as emergency landing strips in the Arctic...
...Between ice in and ice out, Canada's St. Lawrence Seaway Authority turned its efforts to remedying a problem that marred the waterway's inaugural season last year. Big seagoing vessels had such high wind-catching bows and their crews were so inexperienced in the narrow locks and channels that there were 76 accidents along the 27½ mile Welland Canal between Lakes Ontario and Erie. The authority spent $7,500,000 on new mooring walls and fender booms for the Welland, ordered all ships to carry special landing booms, stern anchors and winches. The equipment is sure...
Tummy Ache. In Antwerp, when Aïda. he zoo's biggest elephant, died of intestinal trouble, an autopsy revealed that her stomach contained 1,706 peanuts, 198 cheese, ham, and other kinds of sandwiches, 1,330 pieces of candy, seven ice-cream cones, 811 biscuits, 17 apples, 198 pieces of orange. 891 lumps of bread, one small sausage, 13 wads of paper, three bags, one white glove, one shoestring, for a total undigested weight...
...sheathed, scented prose with great adroitness, and Roger Furse's sets and Dior's gowns enhance the provincially elegant atmosphere. If much of the acting is simply competent and Mary Ure in the difficult role of the pure woman suggests mere marble rather than flesh on which ice has formed, Vivien Leigh's errant lady is conceivably the high point of her career...
Portuguese Spanish. In many respects the U.S.-which likes to lecture foreign nations about the lack of ice water and other amenities-is singularly indifferent to the needs of overseas visitors. There are seldom interpreters and few facilities at airports or docks to help tourists. Foreigners often complain that they are put last in line at U.S. customs inspection, then cross-examined as if they were dope smugglers or prostitutes...