Word: cream
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Kansas City he rode off to the Muehlebach Hotel, went to a suite for lunch. One hour and 30 minutes later he got back into a black Lincoln limousine with his physician, strapping Brigadier General Wallace Graham, and drove the 20 slushy miles to Mrs. Truman's neat, cream-colored bungalow...
...desk a bill, passed by Congress' rightist majority, designed to block Concha's efforts and to maintain existing farm labor conditions. The bill restricted each union to the fundo (estate) where its members worked, forbade them to federate, and banned the troublemaking migrant workers from membership. Cream of the clauses was one stipulating that only literate workers could join. This barred 90% of the campesinos...
...borrowed diamond tiara for her), to preside at the opening of South Africa's Parliament -the first British monarchs ever to do so. The King spoke for six minutes, first in English, then in Afrikaans. That night the family boarded the 14-car royal gold-and-cream train, to continue their conquests over 5,000 miles for the next eight weeks...
...Medellinenses: "In a generation we will have skimmed the cream of economic opportunities in Colombia. After that we will recreate the Gran Colombia (Simon Bolivar's old dream of a united Colombia, Venezuela and Ecuador), which the stupid Bogotanos have tried patching together again with flowery speeches and poetry, but which can be sutured only with trade and industry. And then undoubtedly we will draw in Peru, before inquiring into possibilities further south. Half a continent will not be too much elbow room for us." Argentines might be annoyed to know it, but Medellinenses do not take too seriously...
Later, little Willie sickened and died: "Yes, my darling, impossible as it seems, our precious little soldier boy has been taken away." Later still, to forestall Yankee marauders, "I took my silver sugar dish, cream pot, bowl, forks and spoons and put them into the legs of a pair of your drawers . . . tying up each leg at the ankle and buckling the band around my waist. They hung under, and were concealed by, my hoops. It did well while I sat still, but as I walked . . . the clanking destroyed all hope of concealment. ... I could not restrain my laughter, which...