Word: creaming
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...torrid love affair with a married businessman, Mr. Lobelius (Ulf Palme). In another of his brilliant characterizations, Gunnar Bjornstand portrays the aging consul, who picks up Doris and plays Santa Baby with her for a day. He buys her a gown, a necklace, and a hot chocolate with whipped cream; he quietly retches as he accompanies her on gassing rides at the amusement park; then he takes her to his mansion for mid-afternoon champagne. He watches her youthful exuberance and realizes that he's too old to love. His weakness is dramatized in a confrontation scene with his pathological...
...couldn't stand to live with her any more because she wore so much cold cream on her face at night that her head would skid across the pillow and hit him in the head. He is now contemplating a new skidproof face cream." See EDUCATION, Against...
Most pollsters see the Kennedy-Nixon race as about as close as a boy with an ice-cream cone, and most are as undecided on the outcome as that huge group of "undecideds" who confuse the statistics...
...them again." To a creative classmate, the situation looked very different. "This man," he wrote, "is flying back from Reno where he has just won a divorce from his wife. He couldn't stand to live with her any more because she wore so much cold cream on her face at night that her head would skid across the pillow and hit him in the head. He is now contemplating a new skidproof face cream...
This was no surprise to nuclear professionals. When the U.S. was developing the first atomic bomb during World War II, one of the several promising ways to purify U-235 was to pass uranium hexafluoride, a uranium-containing gas, through a centrifuge-a sort of souped-up cream separator-that would spin the gas at enormous speed and subject it to high, gravitylike forces. The slightly lighter molecules containing U-235 would tend to stay near the center of the centrifuge, while the heavier molecules containing U-238 would move toward the spinning sides...