Word: creaming
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Bias Against Cats. For 2½ hours, the dictator of all the Russias alternately ranted and wheedled, sought to persuade and intimidate, told rambling anecdotes. As for American "aggressors," he said, they should be treated the way Russian peasants treat cats that steal cream or break into pigeon lofts. When he was young, cried Nikita, "we would catch such a cat by the tail and bang its head against the wall, and that was the only way it could be taught some sense...
Salad Days. In Los Angeles, Actress Estelita Rodriguez won a divorce from Alfonso Halfss when she testified that he was so stingy that he refused to let her buy cold cream, forced her to use olive oil on her face...
...Embezzler. But the man to beat was Patrice Lumumba, 34, the tall, goateed radical from Stanleyville who last week was storming through the back country in a cream-colored convertible. Lumumba is a former postal clerk who served six months in jail for embezzling $2,500 ("I used the money to promote the nationalist cause"), was jailed again for starting riots, but emerged in time to join last winter's independence negotiations in Brussels. His followers sell orange-colored Lumumba shirts and party cards to raise money; any black man caught in Stanleyville without his party card...
...lion. On the other hand, the African is prudish, does not like come-hither cheesecake. Companies have found that the surest appeal is to stress power, virility and the image of wealth. The most touchy taboo is politics. Barclays changed the color of its giveaway pencils from blue to cream after it discovered that blue was the color of one local political party...
...rocketed and retailers were asking for gallon bottles. Parker finally discovered that its popularity was due to a thirst for education: pregnant mothers were drinking ink in the hope that their children would be born knowing how to write. Other companies have found shoe polish used as face cream, soap as fish bait, hair cream as sandwich spread...