Word: boiles
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...always heartened me. I have a vivid picture of him in the blackest hour of the Hiss case, standing by the barn and saying in his quietly savage way (he is the kindest of men): 'If the American people understood the real character of Alger Hiss, they would boil...
Instead of merely assigning students big swatches out of textbooks, the classe nouvelle first teaches them how to study: how to use a dictionary, take notes, boil material down to essentials. Trying to breathe new life into old subjects, teachers organize field trips to museums, factories, galleries. Homework is reduced in favor of class projects, manual training, undergraduate magazines and newspapers. By last week, France felt that it had gone a long way in sweeping some of the cobwebs out of the classroom. But that did not mean that the traditional curriculum was being thrown out entirely. After all, said...
...lobster is placed in cold water, which is then brought to a boil, the doctor suggested, it will cooperatively lose consciousness at between 80° and 90° F. Better yet, it can be anesthetized by immersion in a solution made by mixing a pound of table salt in two quarts of cold water. After one minute in this heady brew, it passes out cold, stays groggy for from three to five minutes, and can be boiled with no "visible signs of discomfort...
...article "Bogged Down" makes my blood boil. Is that the way we maintain air bases in Europe ? Is that the way Europe treats us for trying to help her? Is that the way the Air Force expends the money of U.S. taxpayers...
Last year, they reported that the trend was towards lugubrious greetings like, "I could boil you in brine, Won't you be my Valentine?" So this year, they ordered several gross of similar soupy sentiments. But they claim the demand is now for the lace-and-honey type of card...