Word: creaming
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...underdog in Olympic hockey. Its team is a sometime thing, a pickup squad of former college stars who have retained enough interest in the game to stay in shape and to steal necessary time away from their careers. The Russians are more organized: their team is the cream of the most professional amateur hockey leagues in the world. So are the Canadians, by instinct and circumstance the world's best hockey players, who can draw their team from a galaxy of highly organized postgraduate amateur leagues...
...past five years, Ivy League colleges have been able to raise their admission standards 50%. Reason: brighter and brighter applicants. Last year two-thirds of Princeton's applicants were deemed perfectly capable of Princeton work. But only one-third could be admitted, and Princeton skimmed the richest cream. Says Director of Admission C. William Edwards: "The bottom one-third of the applicants of ten years ago wouldn't even bother to apply...
...long fingernails painted red, white and blue; collected enough money by the ritual of sitting in the "money well" or forming the "Sweet Daddy Grace Line" to afford a coffee plantation in Brazil, a chicken farm in Cuba, a cosmetic outfit that sells Daddy Grace Cold Cream ; exuded so much love of a sort that he barely escaped conviction for income tax evasion and violation of the Mann Act; of a heart attack; in Los Angeles...
...potential is quite terrific, You can't go back to the Neolithic. The cream is there for us to skim it, Knowledge is power and the sky's the limit...
...rumpled blond hair, he was clearly not drunk. "I've had a fall," he explained in a clear voice. "I'll be all right as soon as I get on the bus." Two or three minutes later, the young man boarded No. 8 bus, a cream and blue double-decker carrying at least 50 people. He was about 5 ft. 9 in., was in his early twenties, and was wearing a brown, hip-length duffel coat. Dazed, he said nothing when the conductor asked him his destination, silently handed over sixpence and climbed to the upper deck...