Word: icing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...composer's day chamber-music playing was as offhand as it is reverential today, Ustinov says: "Mozart provided the Muzak for the period. The Archbishop of Salzburg and other such philistines went on talking through the first performance of Eine Kleine Nachtmusik; I'm sure ice cream spilled, dogs barked." After listening to Ustinov, the rest of the recording seems more intimate...
...Sweet Jesus, it looks as if Paul dropped a few more of his theological dinosaurs. There seems to be little hope that the Ice Age will recede within the next few eons. Therefore, I shall misinterpret his statement that the Roman Church is the "one only church" into that it is "only one church." He can infallibly lead all the Roman Catholics where he wants-I, for one, am an American Catholic...
Scheduling the Expedition's supply runs has also proven difficult. An old R-4D Dakota, operating out of Barrow, flew the first three airdrops and actually made two landings out on the ice, but beyond a certain point in the sled journey, the R-4D couldn't make the flight without a refueling stop at T-3, pretty much an impossibility now that the runway has melted...
...August or September, plans call for more sledding on firm ice until the long winter night sets in. They will camp again from October until March when the daily quota of sunlight is large enough for travel, having drifted near the North Pole during that North encampment. Then they will have to race against the spring surface melt and hopefully arrive at Longyearbyen on Spitzbergen Island in mid-June. There the H.M.S. Endurance will be on hand to return them to England
Raspberry-lime rickeys are good in this weather and so is Ballantine Ale and so is Dannon Apricot Yogurt. Big, thick, greasy Elsie Burgers are not good. Ice cream cones are not good. They are sticky and they chalk up your mouth and make you thirsty, but you eat them anyway. The line is long at Brigham's and it is air-conditioned there...