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Word: creaming (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Napoleon Solo's shaving-cream can and lighter escape in The Man from U.N.C.L.E. [Jan. 29] is the perfect explanation to the people who ask why I take my cigarettes and lighter to the bath: one never knows when the children (Thrush agents, all) may lock...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Feb. 12, 1965 | 2/12/1965 | See Source »

Finally, and most importantly, student government must provide a channel through which students can express their grievances. For instance, about the ice cream. It doesn't tell you anything in "Studies in the Freshman year" about the ice cream; all it says is "general education ... is used to indicate that part of a student's whole education which looks first of all to his life as a responsible human being and citizen...

Author: By Joel E. Cohen, | Title: My Plan for Student Government (and World Power) | 2/1/1965 | See Source »

...ever hear anything about your life as a "responsible human being and citizen" around here? Day after day, in different colors and different shapes, it's the same old ice cream. What more effective way to remedy this evil than for 4500 undergraduates to storm Elsie...

Author: By Joel E. Cohen, | Title: My Plan for Student Government (and World Power) | 2/1/1965 | See Source »

Last week, at the National Western Stock Show and Rodeo in Denver, Wegner never even got to count one. The luck of the draw gave him Bull No. 89, a cream-colored crossbreed that had never been successfully ridden. Grasping the rails of the chute, Wegner gingerly eased himself onto the bull's back and began to wrap the rope around his hand. The angry animal chose that instant to leap 4 ft. straight up, 10 ft. forward, and dig its front hooves into the dirt. Wegner flew headfirst over the horns ("like he was shot from a cannon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Rodeos: Braving the Bulls | 1/29/1965 | See Source »

...gets ready to sing. What comes jetting down upon him, however, is not water but streams of deadly gas. He tries to turn it off. Impossible. He tries the door. It is locked and batterproof. It appears that he will surely die. But he quickly wraps a shaving-cream bomb in a towel, wedges it against the door, sprinkles it with after-shave lotion, and touches the flame of a cigarette lighter to this ingenious subnuclear device. The blazing lotion heats the shaving cream until it explodes volcanically, and Napoleon Solo-the man in the shower-staggers out into...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: The Man Inside the Man from U.N.C.LE. | 1/29/1965 | See Source »

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