Word: blende
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...basic ingredients of dankness and soot, Parisian passengers have added an enchanting blend of garlic, tobacco, cheap cosmetics and the sweat of honest toil...
Dashes & Jags. The slopeline consists of two lines of lights at the end of the runway, on sloping supports like saw teeth. When an airplane makes a correct approach, they blend into two continuous lines. If the approach is not correct, they look broken up into dashes or jags, telling the pilot what is wrong...
...name announced by Roosevelt as the place of origin of General Jimmy Doolittle's 1942 Tokyo raid.) Both Lost Horizon and Chips sold more than 3,000,000 copies, became movie classics. In the more than 20 novels that followed, Millionaire Novelist Hilton served up a mellow blend of worldly wisdom and well-bred British morality that delighted the book clubs, Hollywood producers and the general public, but alienated first-line critics. "The novelist who sells the reader a good time," Hilton once said, "tends to do so furtively, hoping that certain critics will not notice the offense, since...
...Special Blend. True to his background. Luis Batlle Berres carries on the special blend of liberal politics distilled by Uncle Jose. "Batllismo" is a pragmatic mixture of the welfare state and anticlericalism, seasoned with dignified friendship for the U.S. Under Batllismo, Uruguay disestablished religion so thoroughly that Christmas is now officially called "Family Day." The state runs banking, meatpacking, and fishing, sells insurance, operates the telephones, and provides free medical care and education (for qualified students) through university...
...Private World. Even though held in by injury and age, Hemingway's life-on a small plantation ten miles outside Havana, called Finca Vigia, or Lookout Farm-is still the special Hemingway blend of thought and action, artistry and nonconformity. The Hemingway of 1954 still has a bit of himself for the many sides of his life-and plenty left over to populate that private Hemingway world where the Hemingway heroes and heroines live their lives of pride and trouble, enduring with courage as long as they can, often destroyed but never defeated...