Word: blende
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...secret of this "safety fuel" is a blend of added materials which raises the gasoline's flash point, i.e., the point at which it vaporizes and forms an explosively inflammable mixture with air. Ordinary high-octane gas vaporizes to this degree at temperatures as low as 40° F. below zero. The flash point of Standard's new fuel is 105° above zero. Thus at normal temperatures it gives off no inflammable vapors, is safe as kerosene...
...stories are written in a jarring blend of phonetic dialect ("Shuddap, you bassars or I'll trun the lot of you out") and literary flourishes ("She saw in the bough of the child the tree of the man"). As explained by Brown, the accent contains "the ghosts of several dialects common to soldiers . . . [but] is certainly not Brooklynese...
...gently held these assorted characters together was the 64-year-old father, Bernard, unassuming hero of Author Hutchinson's new novel. Forty years as doctor, farmer and deacon in Chinese villages had made Bernard a blend of practical man and religious philosopher. He believed that the Western world could be saved only by accomplishing the spiritual salvation of the East, and after a day of forking dung and tending the cattle he would sit down at the noisy living-room table and calmly work on his translation into Chinese of The Pilgrim's Progress. Or he might hitch...
...Wirt of Gary, Ind. had a brief vogue when he discovered that Roosevelt was really a Kerensky in Brooks Brothers clothing. But it only looked like a revolution. Actually New Deal roots were deep in Populism, and in the Wisconsin of the La Follettes ; its very name was a blend of Woodrow Wilson's "New Freedom" and Teddy Roosevelt's "Square Deal." As Franklin Roosevelt once said: "If it was a revolution, it was a peaceful...
Correspondents, at last inside Germany, were flabbergasted by the kaleidoscope of contrasts: war and peace, hunger and plenty, anger and kindness, ruin and feudal pomp, a fantastic blend of the modern and medieval. Wherever the tide of war engulfed it, the German state was disintegrating into chaos. Elsewhere, it was incredibly stable...