Word: blandings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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When Kurashov had finished, Sihanouk rose with a bland smile to thank the Rus sians for their generous gift. Then, still smiling, he added pointedly: "Cambodia is prepared to accept aid from any nation. But this does not give the donor the right to meddle in our affairs." Then, ignoring all the fine new hospital facilities before him, Prince Sihanouk set off for Paris-for medical treatment...
MOTORISTS flock to a Howard Johnson because they expect to find fairly uniform-if often bland-food, courteous-if not always swift-service, predictable and not too high prices, and clean rest rooms. Many customers are tugged in by their children, who make up 30% of Hojos' customers, are wooed with special bibs, bendable straws and their own menu...
...Soviet Union, on the other hand, has found an enviable chance to relax, its only task being to avoid letting the broad, bland smile behind its words become too blatant. Mr. Kuznetzov and Mr. Khrushchev have only to fill in a silence or two with a statement like "As is well known, the Soviet Republics have no aggressive desires against other peoples, or "As is well known, the Soviet Government is willing to resist all forms of imperialism, wherever they may appear"; they may then cross their hands and sit back in a posture of absolutely unassailable virtue. After...
...voyage and including such detailed movement headings as "Going on board, and pleasure at recollecting the encouragement [the traveller] hopes to meet with in a land where merit is sure to gain reward." Gehot is represented in the series by his Quartetto in D Major, a pleasant if rather bland work with a folksy, hey-nonny-nonnish air. Among Gehot's other works: a comic opera titled The Maid's Last Shift, or Any Rather Than Fail...
...still an election year. Missouri's Democratic Presidential Hopeful Stuart Symington charged that the President had subjected the country to a "humiliating disaster" at the summit. Adlai Stevenson declared that Ike's "bland" explanations in his televised speech were unsatisfactory. And Jack Kennedy insisted that the nation was confronted with a "failure of leadership...