iceman
Americannoun
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icemen
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Origin of iceman
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“I’m often asked if, after 33 years of iceman research, shouldn’t everything be known?” says Zink.
From Scientific American ● Aug. 18, 2023
Scientists previously thought the iceman was lighter-skinned and hairier in life, but that his mummified corpse had changed over time.
From Seattle Times ● Aug. 16, 2023
Spindler credited the shallow stone gully where hikers found the iceman with shielding him from the relentless flow of glacial ice just a few meters above.
From Science Magazine ● Nov. 7, 2022
Joe Simmonds was the iceman off the tee at fly-half as he kicked vital penalties at crucial moments of both the European Champions Cup and Premiership finals.
From BBC ● Nov. 19, 2020
And as he had since the time of the pigeons, the iceman would hand her a lump of ice saying, “Watch it now, Mrs. Jackson. That straw’ll tickle your pretty neck to death.”
From "Sula" by Toni Morrison
At the turn of the 20th century, Hudson River ice-harvesting was a vibrant industry and scores of icemen sold big blocks of ice, packed in sawdust and hay, from horse-drawn wagons.
From New York Times ● Sep. 1, 2012
“The icemen would deliver this large solid chunk of ice and you’d then use an ice pick to stab the thing and get some ice off,” Professor Hulser said.
From New York Times ● Sep. 1, 2012
By the end of 1935, other icemen put Suhr at the head of newly organized National Ice Advertising, Inc., to see what could be done to rehabilitate the industry.
From Time Magazine Archive
Ten years ago, Joe Louis Barrow was a Detroit ragamuffin, toting ice for fly-by-night icemen to earn a few pennies to keep his feet in shoes.
From Time Magazine Archive
"And then the icemen come with their wagons, get the ice and bring it to us," finished Mab.
From Daddy Takes Us Skating by Howard Roger Garis
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