Word: creaming
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Four years ago, Bunney was Connecticut State Champion in the half mile as a senior at Guilford High Just a few years later the Quincy House senior is once again the cream of the crop of his trade, the art of running faster than anybody else...
...ready to order, Zee says yes, stares at the menu, and starts to cry. "I'll have a hamburger, no, spaghetti and bacon and sausage (all the things she feels she should have cooked for her husband), no, scratch that, I'll have chocolate ice cream with chocolate sauce and a chocolate donut." By this point Zee is overwhelmed with tears, prompting Eli to inquire "Did you ever decide what you wanted to eat?" After she responds, he says, "Wouldn't you want something a little more nutritious...
...cream cones in the freeze...
Demonstrating his passion for cold, Lamine Gueye, 23, an Alpine skier from sub-Sahara Africa who went on from water skiing after moving to Paris, was standing outside on the bitterest day of the Games eating two ice-cream cones at once. As the one-man Olympic team from Senegal, he suffers people's curiosity with a pleasant shrug. "I'm black and I'm a ski racer and I'm Senegalese and I'm tall, but I wish that I could just be a ski racer. I'm crazy about the downhill...
National chains are the American way of marketing. Products from hamburgers and mufflers to computers and ice cream are sold in look-alike outlets from Hawaii to Maine. Until recently, one area of business was restrained from going this route: banking. While Canada has just eleven banks and Britain has about 300, the U.S. has some 15,000. Nebraska alone has 283 different banks, Oklahoma 256 and Colorado 126. Says Walter Wriston, chairman of New York's Citicorp: "When the pioneers got off the wagon train going west, they set up a general store, a saloon and a bank...