Word: icing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...heat wave is great. We love it," said Jessica J. Leahy, the owner and manager of Herrell's Ice Cream on Dunster...
Sales, she said, just about double during long periods of heat, and cool ice cream stores tend to attract hot patrons...
...villains. Newspapers and late-night comics had a field day with early press reports depicting a boozy Hazelwood leaving the bridge of the 987-ft. tanker and turning control over to an unqualified mate. SKIPPER WAS DRUNK, screamed the New York Post. "I was just trying to scrape some ice off the reef for my margarita," chortled comedian David Letterman, suggesting one of Hazelwood's "Top Ten Excuses" for the spill...
...bridge at roughly 11:15 p.m., shortly before the state's harbor pilot, following routine, departed from the ship at Rocky Point. Soon thereafter Hazelwood radioed the Coast Guard to say he would move the vessel from the outbound shipping lane to the inbound shipping lane to avoid ice. It was the last maneuver of Hazelwood's Exxon career...
...Concorde, once the site of the dreaded guillotine. Attended by a crowd of 500,000 and beamed to a worldwide TV audience of 700 million, the $15 million "opera-ballet" by French advertising whiz Jean-Paul Goude featured Scottish pipers and Senegalese drummers, a white bear skating on an ice rink carried by Soviet sailors, and a contingent of Chinese pushing bicycles and holding aloft a banner that read WE SHALL CONTINUE...