Word: creams
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Harvard depends on its alumni like a leech depends on blood. Harvard grads give the money to buy books, support research, create professorships, buy athletic equipment, landscape the Yard, supply ice cream at the Union and fund a host of other miscellaneous line items in the University's budget. Most importantly, it is alumni giving that supports Harvard's need-blind admissions policy and doles out colossal amounts of financial aid to students each year (including a hefty chunk of cash to this writer...
...know someone, though, who plans to poison the entire ice cream bucket hoping that her target will eat from it," he said...
...February 14, nobody could wait until lunch period. Only then were the rubbery hot dogs and soggy ice cream sandwiches accompanied by an extra sweet dessert--a carnation (or two) sent via the high school student council...
This compound noun is then given a modifier: Happy, Quite obviously an adjective meaning joy, pleasure, balloons of hope, warm fuzzies, two kinds of ice cream, finding your skate key...It is less a simple description than a sort of prophecy, full of hope...
...birthday is November 9, and my roommate forgets and shows up at my door on November 10th and wishes me Happy Birthday, my two kinds of ice cream, finding my skate key day of birth immediately becomes two days instead of the usual one. Now, I am entitled to all the benefits and joys of two happy birthdays--four kinds of ice cream, finding my skate key twice...