Word: creaming
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...proliferates. In the twelve governments of former French Africa alone, there are perhaps 200 ministers, where once 25 were enough. This pressure can lead to absurdities. In order to mollify his own youthful job seekers, Niger's President Hamani Diori last December ousted 16,000 Dahomeyans-the intellectual cream of West Africa -thus depriving himself of half his teachers and three-quarters of his Finance Ministry technical staff...
Wednesday's woman is really Wednesday's child. She is a kept waif, chug-a-lugging champagne from the bottle like Coke, sticking out her tongue as if hunting a refractory driblet of ice cream...
...tending to his wants. Clothes are in the sink, boxes and packages are on the chairs; Monk's grand piano stands in the kitchen, the foundation for a tower of forgotten souvenirs, phone books, a typewriter, old magazines and groceries. From his bed Monk announces his wishes ("Nellie! Ice cream!"), and Nellie races to serve; she retaliates gently by calling him "Melodious Thunk" in quiet mutters over the sink...
...keep on talking about ice cream, the child will eventually want some...
...cream-colored draperies parted, the glass door slid open, and there, on crutches, stood Barry Goldwater. Hobbling out to the flagstone patio of his home near Phoenix in the shadow of Camelback Mountain, Goldwater faced scores of Arizona G.O.P. leaders, reporters and television crewmen. Said he: "I want to tell you that I will seek the Republican presidential nomination...