Word: creaming
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...such swank night tracks as Long Island's Roosevelt Raceway, harness racing is thriving on cosmopolitan crowds and city slickers anxious to make a $2 wager. Last year it was an $819 million business, drawing 15 million spectators and dishing out $32 million in purses to the cream of 17,702 trotters and pacers...
Hailing from all corners of the globe, the Seminar members hold positions of power and responsibility as government officials, educators, writers and journalists at home. They average 35 years in age, and represent the cream of the nearly 700 men and women who applied for membership in the program this summer...
...pursued in a social vacuum. It means nothing that students gather in a lecture hall, for they could as well remain in their rooms and watch the show on television. And in the House dining halls--where, we like to pretend, so many ideas are traded over the ice-cream--most academic talk concerns not the subject being studied, but, again, the grading system...
...recruits are hard-working students who may have sensed scholarly fakery in what they are told to read and listen to, who have found motives for learning more profound than being able to "cream" an exam, who enjoy following their own lines of thought and study, who have faith (sometimes exaggerated) in their powers of self-education; who, in short, believe that they will learn best what they want to learn. In its first sense (a gay freedom within academics), abandon means staying away from vapid lectures, auditing widely, and mostly, haunting the libraries and bookstores, reading broadly and selectively...
...palace, Hussein and Toni (who has been converted to the Moslem faith) said their vows, signed five copies of the wedding contract, exchanged rings, and then everybody in the room shouted "Mabrouk!" (good luck). With his bride at his side, Hussein drove through Amman's streets in a cream-colored Mercedes to take the cheers of most of the city's population. That night the couple retired to one of Hussein's palaces, Basman, where they had the company of two pet lions...