Word: cream
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Said the News Chronicle: "The Prime Minister is hardly likely to be what doctors call a good patient." Britons envisaged "Winnie" wan but resplendent in the cream silk pajamas he loves. They imagined him resenting his confinement, glowering at the doctors, harassing the nurses, worrying over state affairs, demanding a Scotch & soda, trying to bribe attendants to bring him a cigar...
...paying his share of their Dutch treats for four years and then married somebody else, won a $179.89 judgment against him for half of 250 purchases, including a package of pistachio nuts, a bag of potato chips, a Mother's Day card, and an ice-cream cone...
...embittered, corrupted by Fascism. He traveled as the Apostolic Vicar of Roman Catholic chaplains in the U.S. Army and Navy, and as the Archbishop of New York, wealthiest Catholic See in the world. More than that, he was as anti-Fascist as a Russian soldier, as American as ice cream...
Originally conceived as a means of tapping the pool of officer material resident in the colleges before the Navy skimmed off the cream, the ERC has never been particularly benevolent toward its members. Within the past three weeks, it has outdone itself in making things uncomfortable for men in the Reserve Corps, coming out with four official statements, three of which have directly contradicted one another. This gross inefficiency has resulted in more than the expected amount of confusion, and has played havoc with the farsighted plans of colleges and students...
...they moved toward a strength of 2,000,000 officers and men, the naval services had exhausted the volunteer pools, could no longer pick & choose. To the suggestion that they skim off the physical cream of the draft, the Army for good reason answered with a resounding "No." The end was a compromise, but it was close to what the Navy asked...