Word: blanding
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...seemed hard to believe that so bland and salve-like a substance as oleomargarine could have set off so abrasive a row. As the House debated repeal of federal oleo taxes last week, party lines snapped like serpentin in a gale; the sulphurous debate grew reminiscent of argument in a waterfront saloon. But there was a good reason. Congress holds few subjects more sacred than 1) American womanhood and 2) American cows. Oleo had forced an awful choice between them...
Physicians have failed to find a satisfactory way of permanently curing peptic (stomach) ulcers, said the University of California's Theodore Althausen. The standard treatment (bland diet) temporarily cures 90% of the cases; but 10% to 36% develop ulcers again within six months after the "cure," from 46% to 93% within five years...
...antagonists. Looking at them, as they stand casually in the restless sunlight before the familiar white clapboards of an ordinary house in a peaceful city, you are suddenly chilled beyond belief. You realize, swiftly, that they are not the friendly, ordinary men they pretended to be all along. . . . The bland face of the short, portly man in front-obviously the leader-has become set, purposeful, inscrutable, and his hand is all at once in the pocket of his grey suitcoat. The faces of his henchmen, grouped carelessly around him, convey the same ominous mood. . . . They stand there, waiting, and their...
...Sheets is one of the most versatile and successful of U.S. artists; he seems more like a bland, blond bond salesman. Sheets is one painter who can look his patrons in the eye and remark, without a deprecatory smile, "I'm no genius...
...vicious delight in helping to wreck his life. Adult readers who take it for granted that a child's mind is an uncomplicated, open book may find themselves appalled by Miss Barker's chilling expose of little Richard Tustin's craftiness under a surface of bland innocence, his greed for power and his contempt for weak grownups...