Word: cream
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...removed his shoes, then his socks, and washed first his left foot, then his right foot. He found a fresh pair of brown socks, with cream clocks up the sides, and carefully drew them on. He replaced his shoes and started moving again along the slowly converging rails...
Another way beleagued Harvard apologists explain the "smartness" of their Radcliffe counterparts concerns admissions and the old economic law of selectivity. Radcliffe, with entering classes of about 300, naturally can accept a higher percentage of the "cream of the crop" than Harvard, which admits a class of 1100, so the argument runs...
Lightly togged in a skintight cream-colored dress-and little else-Cinemactress Marilyn Monroe bantered breathlessly with windswept Chicago newsmen on a potpourri of familiar topics. On underwear: "I have no prejudice against it." Sex: "How do I know about man's need for a sex symbol? I'm a girl. Sex counts like everything else. I'd never discount it." Press conferences: "Occasionally it's fun. Sometimes I can even get a chance to find out what I'm thinking...
...Ages. A major obstacle to changing U.S. diet patterns has been the attitude of the meat and dairy industries. Authors Keys and Keys tackle both head on. For children, they see no objection to milk, but no advantage in stuffing them with butter and ice cream. For adults, they would cut all three of these items sharply. The dairy industry, they argue, could actually increase its market by concentrating more on skim milk, low-fat protein milk and plain cottage cheese -good for all ages. As for meat, the most expensive cuts of beef are the fattest, but the biggest...
...Armenian folk songs, Schubert and Strauss lieder, operatic arias from Rossini and Mozart, even one English air-Cyril Scott's Lullaby. Noted for a repertory of 500 works by 100 composers, in five different languages, she displayed a solidly centered, richly colored voice of moderate power, smooth as cream in the lower register, clear and unforced in the upper one. She was able to pay out a prodigious breath supply with fluid ease, showed an impressive command of Italian, French and German diction, although her English came through with a yawing, Akim Tamiroff drawl. Zara's only lacks...