Word: beaning
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Having learned that red light was the key, the scientists squeezed the juice out of bean seedlings, separated the juices into many different fractions, and tested each for its reaction to red light. Their quarry proved to be a protein-containing pigment that makes up only one part in one million of the juice...
Scouts in the Whiskey. By mid-1958, The Whiskey Distillers of Ireland, who wanted to make a bigger dent in the U.S. market, were in the fold. Weiner & Gossage started an Irish campaign that featured ads ending in midsentence, sniffed at the Brazilian coffee bean (because Irish coffee obscured the burnished flavor of Irish whiskey), extolled St. Patrick's Day in Mexico City. In the interest of scientific experiment ("Irish whiskey research in nature's laboratory"), Gossage dreamed up the Irish Geophysical Year, to be held in McMurdo Sound...
...cheerless drink now well on its way to oblivion. Others have polluted the martini with grenadine, mint sprigs, anchovies, crystallized violets, sherry, absinthe, and even Chanel No. 5. They are still at it: last week Washingtonians were drinking something called a "dillytini"-a martini with a two-inch green bean, pickled in dill vinegar-which tastes, according to one experimenter, "like crabgrass...
...years. Then it came back. Retribution, I guess.") He became a passable golfer, tennis and baseball player during his Harvard years (he is still an avid Boston Red Sox fan), but despite these normalities, many of his Harvard classmates found him a bit odd, with his string-bean shape and undeviating interest in the arts. Classmates recall that he showed scant interest in the two fields where he was to win success, politics and foreign affairs. Said one old Harvard chum a few years back: "He was the last man in the class we would have imagined becoming Governor...
Tobacco is a dirty weed. I like it. It satisfies no normal need. I like it. It makes you thin, it makes you lean, It takes the hair right off your bean. It's the worst darn stuff I've ever seen. I like...