Word: icing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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While the crew programs were busy racking up national championships, the men's ice hockey program continued to make news off the ice...
Only France made some serious attempts to build pressure. In addition to deploying two warships to the region, President Francois Mitterrand dispatched a flood of envoys to Moscow and key Arab League capitals, which command some leverage over Syria. But Mitterrand's diplomacy cut little ice in Lebanon, where France is regarded as an ally of the Maronites, or in Damascus, where France is suspect for its support of Iraq in the gulf...
Alexander the Great, while laying siege to ancient cities, is said to have filled 30 trenches with snow and covered them with branches in order to provide a refreshing oasis for his ladies. No less resourceful was Emperor Nero, who reputedly dispatched runners up into the mountains to fetch ice, which he flavored with fruits and honey to make the original snow cone. And it is likely that Marco Polo, during his travels in the Far East, discovered sherbet...
...author calls for a "Marshall Plan for the Family," in which government would encourage day care by students, elderly neighbors and grandparents. Neighbors could form support networks so couples wouldn't feel so alone. "Traveling vans for day- care enrichment," she muses, "could roam the neighborhoods as the ice- cream man did in my childhood...
...only benefit for both sides has been improvement in their capability for high-altitude warfare. Both forces have built all-weather roads that twist up between towering peaks to base camps on the glaciers. Soldiers spend six weeks acclimatizing to the torturous conditions, learning ice climbing and winter survival. From the camps, men fan out to front-line positions in snow-choked mountain passes. They take turns watching for movement on the other side -- and the opportunity to call in artillery...