Word: creaming
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...schoolchildren detected the feeble, desperate cry from a nearby classroom in an elementary school in Ikeda, a suburb of Osaka in western Japan. Then they heard more screaming. In a first-floor classroom, second-graders were just finishing up a music class when a large man in cream-colored trousers dashed madly toward them, rambling incoherently as he wielded a 6-in. kitchen knife. He stabbed three boys standing by a chalkboard. When a girl tried to flee, he chased her down a corridor. "Run! Run!" a child yelled. A teacher threw a chair at the man but he dodged...
...McVeigh had two pints of mint chocolate ice cream for his final meal. He conferred with his lawyers on the morning of the execution, and made a point, witnesses said, of seeking out eye contact with each person who was there to see him die. After the lethal injection was delivered he lay still on the gurney, covered by a white sheet. At 7:14 Central Time, the warden pronounced him dead...
...knowledge and passion. They want to engage, if one will only let them. They are not afraid to ask questions, to risk interpretations, to read poems aloud and to listen. So my finest experiences since 1991 teaching (briefly) lyric poetry to first-year students at Harvard have been whipped cream on top of chocolate cake. For those who wonder whether education is alive and well, or who question whether the future will be in good hands, I exhort them to come, to watch and to listen to our students...
...residence at Tufts University who has lived in the Square on and off since the 1960’s, raising his son in Cambridge for part of that time. “My son came back and said, ‘Where’s all the ice cream gone?’ It was more individualized back then, I suppose...
...didn’t. [The alumnae] are right to be offended,” Niemiec says. “Radcliffe is trying to establish itself with this new institute and the women are its base of donors. They’re worried Harvard will try to skim the cream off the top and get the more able donors...