Word: boiling
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...heated session came to a boil when Freeman and Javits started yelling at each other about whether or not the Administration bureaucracy had "broken down," as Javits charged...
...years, the company hired horse-drawn sleighs to deliver groceries when snowstorms closed roads to auto traffic, and maintained a well-drilled corps of salesmen who would phone housewives at appointed hours. They not only suggested menus but answered such arcane questions as how to cook an ostrich egg (boil it) or how to extract the flavor from a 6-in. vanilla bean (bury a 1-in. cutting from the bean for a month in a pound of sugar). Once when a hostess in Poughkeepsie, N.Y., complained that a case of turtle soup had not arrived, a Pierce salesman took...
...women's stockings has already disappeared because of television. Yet until recently, even in the face of such total upheaval, we refused to study television as a medium, and had no understanding of its effects. McLuhan's latest book, The Medium is the Massage, is an attempt to boil down his theory (which has already been boiled far too often) and to provide the definitive skeleton key to media study...
Delicious Legality. The kick is known to hippies as "electrical bananas" or "mellow yellow."* Banana-heads scrape the white fibers from the inside of the peels, boil the scrapings into a paste, which is then baked. The dark brown ash that results is smoked in hand-rolled cigarette "joints" or in pipes, tastes vaguely like a burning compost heap...
...this style, though, that lies at the heart of Monro's decision to leave Harvard. Something else is more crucial -- something else that his friends describe variously as a "sense of mission," or "absolute monesty," or "uncompromised dedication," or "strong commitment." These terms boil down to the fact that Monro is a profoundly dedicated--and determined--"do-gooder...