Word: butter
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...went to war against Nazi Germany, Menon joined the Communists in damning both sides (though he marched in anti-Nazi demonstrations). Once he was asked whether the Indian people would prefer British or Nazi rule. "You might as well ask a fish if it prefers to be fried in butter or margarine," he replied...
...feel I had every right in the world to resist the insipid protocol of turning my private life into the kind of running serial you find on bubble-gum wrappers. You can't just take sensitive parts of yourself and splatter them around like so much popcorn butter. Personal freedom has always been terribly important to me, and I have carried aloofness as a sort of banner to my sense of freedom...
...serious thought given to the possibility and advisability of requiring two years of General Education, with an emphasis on the Humanities, for all Cornell students. During these two years, there should be a prohibition upon anything that looks 'practical' or vocational or directly related to the bread-and-butter aspect of education...
...Recipe: Over mixed chopped fruit and nuts, throw pulverizations of black peppercorns (1 tsp.), a whole nutmeg, 4 cinnamon sticks, coriander (1 tsp.) and a bunch of dried, powdered cannabis sativa (marijuana plant). Mix sugar (1 cup) with a big pat of butter. Then combine the entire mess into a cake and cut into fudge-sized pieces. "It should be eaten with care. Two pieces are quite sufficient...
...researchers' ideas was a symposium on cancer control. Conceding that there is a connection between cigarette smoking and cancer, the panel nevertheless put the spotlight on other possible causes-widely used food dyes and additives. Three food dyes have already been generally banned in the West: "Butter yellow" (used for butter and olive oil), "light green SF" (for green peas), and thiourea (used to prevent oranges from spoiling). Last year the U.S. Food and Drug Administration discovered that three of 18 approved synthetic dyes had caused cancer in animals; 31,000 lbs. of the dangerous dyes had already been...