Word: icing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...SMALL BEHAVIOR] Douses analyst Tim McCarver with ice water for criticizing...
Never before had inflation hit so hard and so fast. Hot dogs became three dollar beef ingots on a bun. Small bottles of ice-cold water now cost top dollar. Or rather two top dollars...
...friends and I made our way to the base of the Washington Monument to visit the wall of Sani-johns. Stretching far and wide, the off-white rows looked like the horizontal counterpart to the more upstanding monument. Unfortunately, with nearly five-hundred thousand thirsty visitors each drinking ice-cold bottles of water (nearly one million dollars into the US economy!), even a horizontal monument couldn't accommodate the frantic crowds that gathered...
...course, while he was up there he also hit a couple of golf balls, and perhaps that's the way Americans who watched it will remember him. But Kluger says that Shepard was known as "the ice commander" for good reason. "He was either all business or he was this genial swashbuckling rocket jock, and he would switch back and forth without warning, according to his own internal clock." Whatever foibles this space pioneer carried inside him, they never poisoned the camaraderie among the original seven Mercury astronauts named by NASA in April 1959. Not too long ago, says Kluger...
...that chocolate topping that hardens on ice cream...