Word: icing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...cockpits to vote. In Moscow, said the announcer, Marshal Simeon Mikhailovich Budenny was elected delegate "several times over." Joseph Stalin's district was 100% for him. Concluded the announcer: "In the northernmost electoral unit of the Soviet Union, aboard the icebreaker Sedov -adrift for two years in Arctic ice-the hardy crew could not sleep owing to their impatience for the moment when they would be first allowed to vote...
...Communications were badly disrupted, slowing rescue work by the Army, volunteers, and Red Crescent (Turkish Red Cross). Bridges, rails, highways were either cut by the quake or blocked with snow and ice...
...post-War U. S. A. appears nearer to Romains' in scope, but his great powers of narrative and evocation are spent on a host of minor characters, his structure weakened by journalistic sketches and personal asides, his style a brilliant feat of skating fast over thin ice...
...used German and English words in the same sentence, had not yet separated them into two systems. Unexplained were her choices between German and English words for the same thing: she preferred ice cream to Eiskrem, bathe to baden, flower to Blumen, cake to Kuchen. But she said bitte instead of please, Bett instead of bed, da instead of there, mehr instead of more...