Word: cream
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Busy pedestrians, cyclists and trams crowded the streets. The coffee houses did not yet have cream, but they were free of the hated Nazi "chimney sweeps" (black-uniformed SS men). Bookstores exuberantly displayed volumes banned by the Germans. Every day a thousand news-hungry people trooped to the U.S. Information Service office, hoping to find American papers and magazines. At night people gathered before the charred City Hall to hear a band play Smetana's stirring Ma Vlast-My Country...
...Mode. The ladies of the Methodist Church had cooked up a typical country dinner-baked chicken and dressing, candied sweet potatoes, cranberry jelly, salad, apple pie and ice cream. The 42-room hotel's "banquet room" was hung with pennants. Against the printed wallpaper were a Kiwanis Club shield, a Junior Chamber of Commerce emblem, a War Bond campaign thermometer...
Mackenzie King listened dutifully. By 1 p.m. he was lunching alone on shipboard on soup, roast beef, potatoes, cauliflower, ice cream, coffee. By mid-afternoon he was drinking tea, eating toast and jam on a special train bound for London. At 5:30 he was in London's Waterloo Station. Half an hour later he was on his way, by car, to the Chequers home of Britain's Prime Minister Clement Attlee. By Monday mid-morning bustling Mr. King was in his suite at London's Dorchester Hotel, laying out a schedule for the coming week...
Convoyed by a small motorcade, Emperor Hirohito's car moved through the streets of Tokyo. At the gates of the U.S. Embassy, U.S. guards presented arms. Two U.S. officers escorted him to the huge, dark-paneled, cream-trimmed living room, where General MacArthur was waiting. MacArthur, who wore a ribbonless shirt open at the throat, shook hands and said, "Good morning...
...Penicillin can be given in ice cream. Doctors at the San Diego Naval Training Center, treating sore throat, scarlet fever and trench mouth, stir penicillin into soft ice cream, put the mixture in paper cups and refreeze it in a refrigerator tray. The ice cream preserves the drug, disguises its bitter taste, and slips easily down babies and other difficult patients...