Word: iced
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...devastate city hall at the head of a horde of kids all armed with packages of sticky candy and plenty of wrappers. Another mau-mau Ph.D. didn't even need a gang. He would just turn up at the OEO office with a crocus sack full of "ice picks, switchblades, straight razors, hand grenades and Molotov cocktails and dump it on a desk, claiming he's just taken the stuff off 'my boys last night.' " Concludes Wolfe: "They'd lay money on this man's ghetto youth like it was now or never...
...published a book, Minus 148, about the first winter ascent of North America's highest peak, Mt. McKinley. (The title refers to the temperature Art and two other members of the expedition withstood when they were forced to wait out a windstorm for several days in an ice-cave near the summit. One member of the expedition died in a crevasse during the ascent; Art was lucky enough to return to Anchorage with the loss of only one toe to frostbite...
...first period when the Crimson scored twice in the opening five minutes. Harvard started very slowly, but, on its first power play, sophomores Dave Hynes and Bob McManama connected. Hynes fed McManama at the blue line, and the Crimson center faked the goalie. Neil Higgens, to the ice and flipped the puck behind...
...Crimson's next rush up the ice, Steve Owen scored, assisted by Dan DeMichele, and Harvard seemed certain of victory. The forward lines, shuffled because of the absence of Joe Cavanagh, never appeared in high gear, but the performance of the defense kept the match a one-sided affair until midway in the third period...
...Horizon History of Russia by the editors of Horizon Magazine. Text by Ian Grey. 404 pages. American Heritage. $22. Russia's first thaw occurred about 15,000 years ago when the Ice Age came to a close. South of the Arctic Circle, evergreens spread from Finland to the Bering Sea. A great network of rivers, including the Don, began flowing quietly and otherwise; the steppe rolled out from the Carpathians to Mongolia; the semi-deserts of Central Asia pillowed to the south. Into this immensity came Goths, Slavs, Vikings and Tatars, mixing their blood on battlefields and in bedrooms...