Word: creaming
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...squanders her family's meager monthly handouts on dining at a cafe or on rides in a hansom cab. After befriending an agreeable demi-prostitute and paving the primrose path for her grandson, she develops a haphazard taste for TV, movies, horse races and ice-cream sundaes. She eventually sells off her furniture, buys a jaunty little car, and finances a Communist cobbler who yearns to open a self-service shoe store. Before death overtakes her, the cheeky septuagenarian has lived two lives-one being the long years of servitude as daughter, wife and mother, the other made...
Once upon a time Rona Jaffe made cream-cheese-and-jelly sandwiches out of saltines, library paste and red ink. Another greedy little girl ate them and told Mother, and Mother complained to the principal that Rona was a brat. Little Rona was then ten years of age. She has since more or less grown up into her tristful 30s and written a mildly brattish, mildly famous book called The Best of Everything (TIME, Sept. 15, 1958), which bore down rather heavily on a young girl's discovery that men leave much to be desired...
Meanwhile, the new system has spawned the practice of flipping at the end of a meal to see which man carries back all the forks, and which man carries back the spoons. The winner presumably drops the collected napkins and ice cream wrappers in the big barrel...
After an awkward silence, he clinched it. "The only thing I can think of," he said, "is ice cream...
...freshmen showed class yesterday in sweeping the first five places to cream the Husky pups, 15-44. The Crimson's Roy Shaw breezed around the 3.1-mile course in 16:48 to lead the way. Harvard runners took nine of the first eleven places to even up their record...