Word: creaming
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...flood of city laws which flows through the Houses regularly. How can a member of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, preoccupied with the problems of Vietnam, be expected to worry over the D.C. budget, or a new welfare program or a bill to legalize the sale of ice cream cones in Washington? The matters are naturally left to the Committees on the District of Columbia. And the House District Committee is completely dominated by Southerners...
...stretch caterpillar-like for two miles along an abandoned highway. Later, in forested bivouac areas ablaze with the golds and russets of autumn, the troops set up pup tents, took hot showers in tents equipped with gas-powered water heaters, wolfed down mountainous helpings of chicken, turkey, potatoes, ice cream, crisp red apples, bread and fresh butter at improvised field kitchens...
Almost every U.S. city has on the books a clutter of old, obscure laws that are hardly ever enforced. In Wash ington, D.C., for example, it is illegal to sell an ice-cream cone. A law to that effect was passed by Congress in 1921 and signed by Woodrow Wilson on his last full day in office as President of the U.S. Designed to protect the public against spoilage, the law makes it a mi demeanor to sell ice cream in Washington except in easily iced standard units - half pints, pints, quarts...
Last week the House of Representa tives finally acknowledged modern refrigeration and amended the old ice cream-cone law. The Senate is expected to go along. Crowed Virginia's Republican Congressman Joel T. Broyhill, one of the backers of the bill: "A progressive step." If Congress continues to catch up with the times, it may some day dispense with the District of Columbia's laws that still prohibit driving sheep down Pennsylvania Avenue and forbid winning more than $26.67 in a gambling game...
...eyes within his Hereford face rove the studio, missing nothing. Dean, whose recording of Big, Bad John once sent all teenagers, is really the darling of their mothers, who want to call him in off the street and give him a slice of warm pie with melting vanilla ice cream on it. Incredible as it may seem to ABC's metropolitan viewers, he may be around for a long time. It's a big country...