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Word: icing (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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Mazzoleni's plan of "smart, simple hockey" was in effect from the start, with a lot of quick, short passes up the ice, allowing Harvard eight shots on goal in the first period...

Author: By Jennifer L. Sullivan, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: Presto Blanks to Begin Mazzoleni Era | 11/1/1999 | See Source »

Looking Forward to the new Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young album? So was I. When I was in elementary school and my friends were swooning for the toxic melodies of The New Kids on the Block and Vanilla Ice, I was singing along to the tunes of "Ohio" and "Woodstock," daydreaming about Yasgur's farm and music with a "message." While my friend's musical idols were worrying about hair mousse and Hammer pants, mine were getting liver transplants. But the music I loved was distinctly dated fare, so I had hope that the new CSNY album would take some...

Author: By Carla Mastraccio, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Album Review: Looking Forward to New CSNY? Don't Be So Sure: Ten Years After Their Last Album and 30 Years After | 10/29/1999 | See Source »

First, although the mammoth's head had been excavated in previous weeks, the scientists reattached the tusks to the block of ice before the helicopter transport. The result was something akin to Dumbo the flying ice cube--a press spectacle just awe-inspiring enough to make any avid watcher of the Discovery Channel...

Author: By Lauren E. Baer, | Title: Editorial Notebook: When Mammoths Fly | 10/28/1999 | See Source »

...alas, just when youngsters of the world had gotten their hopes up that future field trips to the zoo might be a little more fun, Russian zoologist Alexei Tikhonov announced that he believed the block of ice really contained nothing more than a couple of hairballs and a few bones. The strangest twist of all, though, was Tikhonov's suggestion of what should be done with the maybe-mammoth-maybe-algae-filled block of ice...

Author: By Lauren E. Baer, | Title: Editorial Notebook: When Mammoths Fly | 10/28/1999 | See Source »

...Ever use an ID card to spread peanut butter? Wamback reports that he has "seen cards chewed up by dogs, run through a dish washer, burned, dropped in a paper shredder. Holes have been punched through the magnetic strip. Some have been broken when used to scrape ice from windshields. (Cards are more brittle at lower temperatures)." So don't confuse your card with a Swiss Army knife or you might find yourself out in the cold...

Author: By David M. Rosenblatt, | Title: Fifteen Minutes: The ID Deconstructed | 10/28/1999 | See Source »

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