Word: blende
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...bougainvillaea-spangled Petropolis, Brazil's traditional summer capital (see above), Latin American delegates to the inter-American economic conference last week opened their campaign for a massive new program of help from the U.S. (TIME, Nov. 22). The response was a blend of sweet reasonableness and polite standoff from U.S. Secretary of the Treasury George Humphrey. The Latinos wanted price floors for the raw materials they supply the U.S.; Humphrey countered that "We as governments should reduce . . . our own intervention in the fields of commerce and industry." The Latinos wanted outside financing totaling $1 billion a year; Humphrey suggested...
...easy way. This recipe is for people who cannot toss a soufflé omelette in the air to turn it over in the pan. Mix 1½ tablespoons flour and 4 tablespoons granulated sugar, and 1 pinch of salt. Add these to the well-beaten yolks of 6 eggs. Blend well, and then fold into the well-beaten whites of 6 eggs. Melt ¼lb. butter in a large, deep, iron frying pan. Pour the mixture into this. Cook over a slow flame for 3 to 4 minutes. Then place under the broiler and cook slowly...
Miss Bel Geddes' supply of tears is not unlimited, but she does as well as could be expected under the circumstances. For the most part she is the innocent and unaffected girl which Greene intended. Walter Fitzgerald manages to make the priest a sympathetic blend of the wise and ineffectual, and if he seems more deft at both than psychologist Michael Goodliffe, it is probably because Greene has given him the better arguments...
...actress or sorceress enough. She manipulates herself, and the kitchen chair that is her only prop, in all sorts of bold, mannered, ingenious ways; but they call too much attention to themselves, or seem too cute, or wear thin too soon, or don't really blend with her songs. It is her voice that is true theater, not these stage tricks; and when she sings the old favorites as encores, the voice is all that is needed...
Popular passions were aroused on both sides of the Rhine, and it was asking much to ask a handful of men to devise a formula that would make the Germans strong enough to worry the Russians, yet keep them restrained enough to comfort the French. A blend of such opposites could not be attained through some safe, ingenious blend of legalisms and restrictions. For the Western allies, and for the French in particular, one of the men best qualified to discuss Europe's military needs had this advice on the London Conference's eve. "If you are going...