Word: blende
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...tough-willed Quaker wife rose to the occasion. As a girl, Lydia had been a fierce Abolitionist, and she had organized a society to debate slavery and female suffrage. Her response to the new challenge: bottling and selling a home medicine she had been using for years. Ingredients: a blend of herbs, including true-unicorn and pleurisy root, steeped and macerated in an 18% alcohol base (about as potent as sherry). Taste: mildly bitter...
This eerie blend of fatalism and foolishness formed the background for the Marshall mission. Painstakingly, the white paper gives the now painful details: the suspension of arms shipments to Chiang to allow the U.S. a brief, bootless masquerade as a neutral arbiter between Chiang and the Communists; and General Marshall's increasing infatuation with the dream of building a middle-of-the-road "liberal" party from scattered political factions in a nation at fatal war with itself. From those factions that inspired such hope, only one leader later rose to power: General Li Tsung-jen, who last year proposed...
...strange blend of Christian religion and primitive superstition Angel Sanchez had conceived a powerful devotion for the miracle-working Virgin of El Quinche. A dark, fanatical-looking mestizo, Sanchez even wore a medal of the Virgin pinned through the flesh of his breast. But last week he was locked up ia a Quito jail, charged with stealing the jewels from the highland village shrine where he had worshiped...
...things are said in the world today, and I am surfeited with them." (In 1947, when she was India's first ambassador to Moscow, Mrs. Pandit had sweetly said: "India has a special link with the Soviet Union, since both India and Russia have shown a capacity to blend and harmonize different races and civilizations...
...King" tells it, in a lively stylistic blend of Baron Munchausen and Dan Turner, Private Eye, the Harvard job was really an accident. He had come to Boston to knock over a Liggett drug store, but after casing the joint he vetoed...