Word: almond
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...swarthy, little Magyar, with almond eyes, bristling, black mustache and sensuous lips that spat Hungarian, German, French, English, Italian, Spanish and Russian with the staccato speed of a Browning machine gun, died in Budapest last week. He was 46-year-old Count Stephen Csáky, Hungarian Minister of Foreign Affairs, in whose aristocratic veins flowed the blood of Hungary's unscrupulous, wheedling past. Assured of a career by virtue of birth, Count Csáky became Europe's foremost professional in the art of diplomatic tightrope-walking even after the rope had become a Balkan tangle...
...THANKS FOR KIND TREATMENT [TIME, NOV. 25] AT A TIME WHEN I CONFIDENTLY EXPECTED TO HAVE MY BLOCK KNOCKED OFF, BUT CANNOT HELP FEELING A LITTLE UNHAPPY THAT YOU FELT THE URGE TO USE A PICTURE TAKEN ON THE ONE DAY THAT I'D MISLAID MY HINDS HONEY & ALMOND CREAM...
Plundered Larder. On the verboten list last week were placed all the meringue, almond paste and cream cakes dear to the palates of Frenchmen. A drastic shortage of sugar, flour, cream and butter caused the percentage of sweetening in cakes to be reduced to 10% of the contents, and the sale of all pastry to be prohibited on Mondays, Tuesdays and Wednesdays. In restaurants a new decree provided that neither fish nor cheese could be served with a meat meal and that meat could not be included in meals served after 3 p.m. except on Sundays and holidays. As rationing...
...water colors of laborers taking siestas, cows looking over a fence. With his attractive Brazilian wife and two sons, Artist Segall lives in big, bustling Sao Paulo. But he often goes back country to paint. Most appealing canvas in the show came from one such trip: Negro Mother, an almond-eyed, woolly-haired girl holding up her café-au-lait infant...
...unseasonable coincidence, fine warm weather dotted a Europe that was emerging from its coldest winter in a hundred years. As Sumner Welles & party arrived in Rome, the almond trees were blossoming; people were singing a new song, Wind, wind, take me away with you; crowds were flocking to see Three Smart Girls, to hear Ravel's L'Heure Espagnole...