Word: cream
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...squeak by ("I know I've made the right decision"). A father of two, David Miller, 37, not only sold his grocery store, but got his wife to attend college as well. "We're budgeted to the last penny," says he. "Our kids will get threepenny ice-cream cones instead of sixpenny ones. But I think we'll just manage...
Coffee (instant) and a white cake (made from ready-mix) and ice cream topped off the meal. Mrs, Holstein's harvest from husband and guests: a burst of praise (spontaneous) for her "home-cooked" meal. Such jiffy cooking would have made Grandma shudder, but today it brings smiles of delight to millions of U.S. housewives. The remarkable rise of "conven-ience" or processed foods-heralded by the slogans "instant," "ready to cook" and "heat and serve"-has set off a revolution in U.S. eating habits, brought a bit of magic into the U.S. kitchen. It has freed the housewife...
Sporting a 3-1 record the Yardlings, met Princeton but found out, to the tune of 20 to 12, that they were not the cream of the Ivy League. A victory over Yale would have soothed the Crimson's wounds, but the Yardlings' chronic troubles in the second half resulted in a disappointing finish to their season...
Sipping an all white ice cream soda in a campus snack bar, Mike the Knife (as the press had begun to call him) said his elbows were clean; too bad about Bates, but he just couldn't stop. U.S.C.'s Coach Don Clark backed up his man, said that McKeever had performed "no misconduct," had played a "clean but aggressive game." After all, the officials on the spot had not penalized U.S.C. on the questioned play...
...relatively underpaid worker who is forced to moonlight to pay the household bills. The cop and the fireman, who get as little as $2,400 annually, wash windows and work as handymen for a few extra dollars a week: the $3,000-a-year schoolteacher drives an ice-cream truck to send his son to college. But the biggest moonlighter of them all is the airline pilot, that rugged capitalist of the sky, who makes as much as $30,000 a year (as a jet captain) and spends his off-duty hours piling up even more of the long green...