Word: creaming
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Gift from Cairo. To appease enemies and critics, Hussein released 600 short-term prisoners, slashed other sentences by a third, and commuted all death sentences to life imprisonment. He even visited Amman Central Prison, released and embraced a onetime aide convicted of plotting. In a cream-colored Rolls-Royce prudently surrounded by a cordon of armored cars, the King stopped off at the Grand Hussein Mosque for lengthy prayers. He promised elections "soon," though one Jordanian predicted that they would result in a "75% pro-Nasser Parliament...
WHEN venerable Thomas J. Lipton Inc. of tea fame bought the Good Humor Corp. (for $8,200,000), it acquired two typically American products : ice cream on a stick and Good Humor President David J. Mahoney, 37. Lipton plans to expand Good Humor into more hot-weather cities, may add cookies and other child-appealing products to its line. An Army captain at 22 and the $25,000-a-year vice president of an ad firm at 26, Mahoney took over Good Humor in 1956, is one of the nation's most aggressive marketing...
...just enough. And this means that they've been given one too many. Similarly, Segal is having such obvious fun with language that he often does pun indiscriminately, and Raposo's music at times becomes too complementary to the lyrics, like chocolate syrup poured over chocolate ice cream...
Lunch was the high point of the busy day for the kids, and they devoured 2400 hot dogs, 225 dozen rolls, 117 dozen ice cream bars, 87 pounds of potato chips, and 15 tanks of soda. The whole P.B.H. cabinet was on hand to serve the 1200 lunches in a little over an hour and 15 minutes...
...probably wishes by now that he had not been appointed Park Commissioner, decreed that there would be no more singing. His interest, he explained, was in merely protecting the Washington Square grass. (There is some grass in the square, pushing its way up through a mulch of ice-cream wrappers, but there is none within a beer can's throw of the folk singers' fountain...