Word: skim
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...railroads suffer, too, from memories of the bad and fat old days when many of them arrogantly set their rates according to "what the traffic would bear"-a practice that not only opened the way for trucks to slip in and skim off the cream of the freight, but that also inspired the steady expansion of federal regulation of railroads. Nowadays, a railroad cannot raise or lower its fares, expand or contract its lines, merge or diversify its business without express approval of the slow-rolling Interstate Commerce Commission. Overworked and understaffed, the ICC itself harbors no illusions about...
Staggered by the sheer size of the U.S., most foreign tourists are aware that they can do little more than skim the surface...
Stereo & Steaks. At his office, Goldwater may skim the Wall Street Journal and the Phoenix newspapers-he rarely reads the New York Times and gave up the liberal Washington Post because of its "slanted reporting"-before plunging into the mail. He tries to get home by 7, sips two or three bourbons and water while helping prepare dinner (usually steak). He fancies himself a cook, but sometimes lets his tastes run away with him. He once used peanut butter to the point that his sons dared him to shave with it; Barry did, "although I smelled like hell...
...Raisin in the Sun (Columbia) is essentially a writhing, vital mess of tenement realism. Unfortunately, in this film translation of her 1959 Broadway hit. Scenarist Lorraine Hansberry apparently felt obliged to sprinkle the mess occasionally with Mammy's own brand of brown sugar, douse it frequently with the skim milk of human kindness that too often passes for social concern, and then serve it all up as a sort of pablum for progressives. Even so, the mixture makes pretty strong medicine for a society afflicted with what the author calls "acute ghettoitis...
...week. Due to an extension in time granted by the registrar, I have had 11 days in which to read 150 exams, which amounts to about 14 exams a day--not an impossible chore. Then I have another 50 exams to read in 7 days. Although I do skim part of some exams, there are others which I read twice. Also, due to a pre-assigned question the performances are easier to grade. Paul A. Lee Teaching Fellow in Theology...