Word: creaming
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...model sales in judging how long the auto boom can continue. The signs are encouraging: about four used cars are now being sold for every three new ones, and at least 13 million used cars will probably be sold in 1963. While used-car dealers can usually sell a "cream puff"-the car in good condition with a good paint job-they are doing so well now that many find little trouble in unloading the beat-up dogs. Boost from Below. The horse-trading system of selling new cars in the U.S. makes the used car a vital factor...
Climaxing a two-year investigation, a commission of inquiry in Colombo accused 22 Ceylonese navy officers-the cream of the top naval leadership-of conspiring to smuggle a treasure-trove of contraband into the country. Chief among them is the former naval chief of staff, Rear Admiral Royce de Mel, 47. When he sailed grandly home from a 1960 goodwill cruise in Asian waters, the commission charged, the magazines of De Mel's flagship and an escorting frigate had been loaded with some $10,000 worth of bounty bought in duty-free ports. Main source was Singapore, where...
...friends must strain to return a compliment ("Well," said one, straining, "she has a strange and marvelous spine"). Her walk has been described as a camel's gait, her nose as something stolen off a cigar-store Indian. Yet thousands of women cut their hair because of her, cream their skins, shorten their sleeves, and belt their coats, all at the iron whim of a woman whose face is as rarely photographed and widely unknown as the moon's other side...
...sunny spring day in Cambridge, a beautiful girl, and two ice cream cones -- what more could anyone ask? Simply: a baseball game. Or a crew race. Or maybe even a tennis match. Sports events, after all, have often been the high point of Spring Weekends; this year they may provide some comic relief as well...
...none of these events interests you, the obvious solution is to drown your sorrow in another ice cream cone and find a better game for yourself -- perhaps frisbee on the Charles...