Word: cream
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...blonde, bulging, overbearing, with a broad, white face, narrow, calculating eyes and a smile like the flat glare of an electric light that turns on & off at the touch of a switch. She leans with both elbows on the table and in a loud and domineering voice orders ice cream from the tired German waitress, while the boy follows her movements with a young dog's eyes. Outside, in the lounge, is a group of German war brides who will take off in two hours for America. Among them is a mother with a baby in her arms...
...were the cream of 30,000 children's paintings and drawings-entered from 50 nations & territories at the invitation of Paris' Union des Arts Plastiques...
...overnight with Stakhanovite speed. At first, it looked as though Molotov intended to play along with the American plan for a while, and later try to shift the onus of a possible failure on to the U.S. How that might happen was explained by one diplomat in Paris: "Ice cream would have a better chance of surviving in hell than a big credit plan which includes the Russians would have in the U.S. Congress...
...Your Honor, permit me to offer you my latest sonnet. It is entitled 'The Madman.' I have dedicated it to you." To most accusations of collaboration he replied: "Ce n'est que de la crême fouettée" ("It's nothing but whipped cream," i.e., baloney). Had he not belonged to Déat's group? Snapped Bourin: "Zero for the question. I was always against Déat. But I love uniforms. I had only been a lieutenant and Déat offered to make me a major. He also appointed...
Vanilla Please. When a drugstore and a grill in Riceville, la. offered ice cream at the cut rate of 20? a pint, competitors lowered their prices to 15?. Soon the price war reached the point where ice cream was being given away. One store finally posted a sign: "One cent paid to those asking for a pint of ice cream and taking it out of the store." The war ended only when ammunition...