Word: creaming
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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While Khrushchev was busy denouncing the U.S. in Austria, his subordinates in Moscow were acting as if some of their best friends were Americans. Almost 300 of the cream of Moscow society showed up for the U.S. embassy's Fourth of July celebration. Among them: First Deputy Premier Anastas Mikoyan, Secretaries Frol Kozlov and Nikolai Ignatov...
...consumers in the market for "white goods" (refrigerators, washing machines, etc.), the bargains last week were the best in many a moon. Hotpoint was so eager to unload that it had set up carnival-like displays around the nation, was giving away cokes, ice cream and balloons to kids who brought their mothers to the fair (next week, the kids can trade their mothers for space helmets). Whirlpool has cut distributor prices 6% on some refrigerator models. General Electric has stripped trim off other models to sell them as cheaper "economy specials." The industry was hustling as quickly...
...throat infection, she went through a schedule that would have exhausted a Pilgrim's wife. She gave two music lessons, did a week's marketing, and decorated the den for an evening recital of one of her viola students.* The recital was topped off with ice-cream sodas for the eight concert guests, and it was after midnight before the Birnbaums...
...first of all the manager of home and brood, and beyond that a sort of aproned activist with a penchant for keeping the neighborhood and community kettle whistling. With children on her mind and under her foot, she is breakfast getter ("You can't have ice cream for breakfast because I say you can't"); laundress, house cleaner, dishwasher, shopper, gardener, encyclopedia, arbitrator of children's disputes, policeman ("Tommy, didn't your mother ever tell you that it's not nice to go into people's houses and open their refrigerators...
...colleges are in an even more difficult spot than you pointed out. Besides needing common magic to separate the Cream from the cream, they have to perform the arcane wizardry which separates those who really want an Ivy education (of which there still aren't enough) from those who just want Ivy. LEWIS C. CADY '59 Brown University Providence...