Word: creaming
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Next week, each rooming group will be given its lottery number. Then the fun really begins. Countless freshmen will attend countless ice-cream bashes and Masters' Open Houses and spend hours talking to upperclassmen in order to determine whether the "character" of each house is right for them...
...employee at Baskin Robbins ice cream in the Square said that business was at a record high, better even than during the summer high season. "During this season, we are lucky if we sell 200 cones a day. But today, it looks like we'll break 900," he said...
...engine had failed. A berth was offered them aft of an American destroyer. Michel said, "It's your country, Janis. Go talk to them." Whatever Janis did, it succeeded. "For the next week we had five sailors working on our engine. They filled our icebox with steak and ice cream. And all around us was this harbor of poverty. It was horrible, and it was heaven. I'll never forget...
...although customers seem to believe that I'm an omniscient being who can anticipate and direct their every want ("I want...a sundae." What kind? "Ahh...hot fudge." Pause. Any ice cream with that? "Oh...What's good?) they will simultaneously assume that I'm a deaf and dumb sub-human creature...
...Legs out in a Chuck Berry Duck Walk, I hop around singing into my mop while the manager rushes about waving correction slips and time cards. Then we're in the service area, cranking out the final tasks. Both choosing the same moment to drag out an ice cream tub, we collide. Eyes bugging, faces centimeters apart, we break into a primal scream duet. Nancy joins us, and we all scream again, faces flushed, drowning out the music, and then finally collapsing into exhausted laughter. Closing time...