Word: blende
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...spreading like an epidemic." Beneath the banner headlines ran the byline of the stranger at the bar: Edwin Strickland, 39, the balding bachelor reporter of the Birmingham News, who has made a career of sniffing out crime and corruption, in 1954 played a major role in exposing the blend of sex, graft and murder in Phenix City, Ala. (TIME, June...
Commenting on the result of Harvard education, the President said that it was often to bring students to a "curious blend of skepticism and excited caring." He suggested that the reticence "is not unrelated to whatever it is that causes many Harvard men--it seems to be, unnecessarily-- to hold back from anticipation in organized religious life...
...blends themselves, in both Tulla's and the Capriccio the many varities come from five or six staples. Tulla explains that she uses Colombia, Brazilian, Javanese, Luziane, and a "secret" blend of Cuban coffee. Most she orders from New York wholesalers, but the Luziane is shipped from New Orleans. To hurry it along, Tulla occassionally resorts to urgent dispatches like the card she sent last week: "Help, help! We ordered six pounds of Luzaine several weeks ago. Wha hoppened...
...Capriccio blends American Spanish, French, and Italian coffee. Wilson gets his coffee from Boston wholesalers. He finally settled for La Touraine for the American coffee after trying more prosaic brands. Each establishment uses the pulverized Turkish blend, the daddy of the instant coffees...
Both coffees manage to create more than a dozen exotic varities from the basic grinds. Cappucino and Mocha are the most popular at the Capriccio. To make the cappucino, a cinammon stick is mixed in the coffee. Tulla prepares an `"angel's bosom" which is sugared Cuban blend topped with a mound of whipped cream and a maraschino cherry. Neither place has a license to diverge into to inviting mixtures of coffee and rum or whiskey. Cook regrets this and notes, "A lot of good drinks are missed that...