Word: ice
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...Angeles, Ivan Whitfield, 25, told a Navy recruiting officer he had never kissed or hugged a girl, eaten chicken or chocolate ice cream, talked with a girl on the telephone, smoked, drunk, danced, watched a prize fight, or stepped aboard a battleship. "I might switch over on a few things," he observed...
Then a slight warm wind arose. In four hours the ice was gone. There were no major catastrophies, no fires of consequence, no deaths. Amarillo stirred like a somnambulist awakening, estimated its damages in the millions. Four days passed before telephone and telegraph communications made Amarillo once again part of the outside world...
...mukluk (fur boot) was Sourdough Edwin A. Robertson, a Maine-born man who had lived most of his 84 years in Yukon country. Fortnight ago, Sourdough Robertson left his lonely cabin on Seventymile River, mushed for Eagle to lay in supplies. The air was deadly cold; spicules of ice rimed the oldtimer's whiskers. Warily he plodded. He knew his Yukon, knew that while the running creeks freeze solid early, little springs that never freeze bubble under the snow all winter; that to crash through an ice-skin meant wet feet that would freeze almost instantly unless he could...
...wolves. A searching party found the oldtimer last week. He had deliberately lain down in the stream, let the freezing water trickle over him as he settled down to sleep. The tracks of baffled wolves were all around, but the body of Sourdough Robertson was encased peacefully in ice...
...refrigeration pioneer, singled out young Diesel, sent him, after graduation, to work at the Linde factory in Paris. In a few months Diesel was acting as engineer, manager, inventor, patent expert, purchasing agent. He began to take out patents of his own-one for a means of making "clear ice," another for a gadget to make ice on the dinner table, in a carafe...