Word: icing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...fighting man in the Viet Nam war that helicopter-supplied units can bring him two hot meals a day out in the field. Many a soldier or Marine is able to sit down in the jungle minutes before going into combat and eat shrimp cocktail packed in ice...
...ICE HOCKEY...
...they had formed, Urey believes, the lunar waters dried up, before they could carve out major features such as valleys and stream beds similar to those formed by water flowing on earth. If any water remains on the moon today, he says, it is probably in the form of ice buried below the surface and insulated from solar heat. The gradual melting and vaporization of this ice, which would leave voids beneath the surface, may account for the cave-ins visible in moon-probe photographs...
...Ice Control & Computers. Such unblinking vigilance over the slightest details of their vast operation is typical of Canada's Expo initiators. From the moment in 1962 when International Exhibitions picked Montreal as the site for '67 (over Moscow, which showed early enthusiasm for an exhibition, then faded from contention), the Canadians began trying to achieve perfection. Principal spark plug was Montreal's dynamic mayor, Jean Drapeau, who buoyantly declared as the first-stage preparations began: "Montreal will not be plagued by lack of imagination...
...flat that was the He Sainte-Hélène and created the He Notre Dame, which became Expo's major sites. New bridges, a spaghetti pattern of elevated highways, and a theater complex, Place des Arts, were constructed. To provide an upstream system of ice control, Expo masterminds even built a 6,693-ft. ice boom to keep thundering tons of springtime floes from smashing into the new islands...