Word: creaming
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...will ultimately happen. But we feel that in a world of so much force, we have to be able to do as well as anybody else." "We Puny Things." In the predawn darkness of July 16, 1945, dance music echoed from loudspeakers as men smeared their faces with sunburn cream and waited ten miles from a 100-ft. tower in the desert near Alamogordo. Some had been working and waiting three years for this moment-and when that tower ignited at 5:30 a.m. in the world's first atomic explosion, the flash was so blinding that those...
Last week Chancellor of the Exchequer Selwyn Lloyd, a man never hitherto famed for political audacity, slapped a 15% tax on candy, ice cream and soda pop. Britons, shocked to their cavities by what many soon called "the Lollipop Budget," protested that it was a "tax on children," though craving for candy knows no age limits. The government will collect $140 million a year from the sweet-tooth tax -which makes it a classic bit of budget balancing, since the government now pays exactly $140 million yearly to dentists to repair the damage...
...turning point came in 1956, when Benton brought into Great Books the salesman-stocky, bespectacled Kenneth M. Harden, a veteran of 37 years of encyclopedia selling. At the time he took over as national sales manager, recalls Harden, Great Books executives "felt there was a 2% cream on top of our society who were Great Books prospects-the eggheads." Countered Harden: "Let's go after the mass market-the butcher, the baker, the candlestick maker...
...whom Madame Schwarzkopf is particularly fond. Listening to Schlechtes Wetter, one knew why. The song is about a mother who will bake a cake for her lazy daughter who sits at home. It ends in a soaring waltz straight from Der Rosenkavalier: Schwarzkopf's voice here was all whipped cream and Sachertorte. Not satisfied with this dessert, the audience demanded three encores before the soprano took the bouquets of roses from the piano as a sign that the concert was over. The reluctance to leave was understandable: it was a treasurable recital...
...Answer: "No, there isn't any there either." Asks another: "Is it possible to build Communism in only one country?" "Certainly, but who wants to live there?" Russia lacks the drugstores, coffee bars or bowling alleys where the young can congregate, although there is a scattering of ice cream parlors. Cinemas are few and crowded; getting tickets to the Bolshoi or Moscow Art Theater takes hours of waiting in line...