Word: creaming
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...White House, and posted guards outside the drab chamber to keep newsmen and lobbyists away. At his prompting, industry and union bargainers labored as long as 1½1 hours a day. As the strike deadline loomed, Johnson cut the lunchtime lag by sending in steaks and ice cream "to keep them hard at it." Toward week's end he talked direly of transporting both teams bodily to the LBJ Ranch where, he is fond of observing, the September sun can be a powerful persuader...
Buffalo Steak. Now a veteran of 22 launches, he is calm enough about it all to leave his exciting job behind when he drives his 1963 cream-colored Chevrolet home from the Houston space center to his four-bedroom brick ranch house in the nearby village of Friendswood. He sees to it that his daughter Kristi-Anne, 10, takes piano lessons; he takes his son Gordon, 13, to ball games at the Astrodome. He treats his wife to dinner out on Saturday evenings, takes the family to a nearby Episcopal church on Sundays, and tries to get in some golf...
...electric starter, electric windshield wipers and a virtually foolproof heater. It also reversed the Ford policy of "the choice of any color as long as it was black." It came in colors whose names would make today's automotive palette seem pale indeed-Moleskin Brown, Andalusite Blue, Cigarette Cream, Mulberry Maroon, Chicle Drab. The job of the restorer is to return the car as close to factory condition as possible. Many of the cars are rescued from the junk heap; others are bought from philistines who have put in engines from other cars and replaced original with makeshift parts...
...summertime Santa? Complains one Lynn, Mass., housewife: "I wouldn't mind those trucks if they didn't always come at the wrong time. I just get my two-year-old to sleep in the afternoon when those damn chimes begin to sound." Adds another: "Once the ice cream man has been around, I can't get my children to eat anything. Two fudgesicles and dinner is out the window." Some people do not mind when the ice cream man cometh so much as how. The four-bar Good Humor tune that daily wafts over Beverly Hills struck...
...result is that the mobile ice cream companies have fallen on hard times; their share of the entire ice cream market has dropped from 4% to 1% in the past four years. And the future looks equally frosty. In an effort to cut costs, Good Humor, which enjoys by far the largest slice of the mobile ice cream pie, has stopped dispensing napkins with its novelties. And letting droopsicles drip all over party dresses will hardly melt the opposition...