Word: crisping
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...costs less per gallon than bottled no-lead spring water. Never mind economy, however. There are congested localities such as Aspen, Colo., and Missoula, Mont., where wood burning is immoral, toxically wasteful and severely curtailed. The sweet-smelling, picturesque blue-gray smoke rising from Grandma's condo on a crisp December morning simply loads the air with too much additional junk...
...deep sleep for the next ten or 20 years, he might wake up to the whoosh of trains being propelled through the air by superconducting magnets. He might observe crowds of commuters toting supercomputers the size of magazines. In average homes, he might see 7-ft. TV images as crisp as 35-mm slides and enticing new food products concocted in the lab. But if he could read the labels on those futuristic creations, he might also discover the outcome of America's struggle to remain the leading technological superpower. Sad to say, a majority of those products might well...
MOZART: THE COMPLETE PIANO SONATAS (Philips). Crisp, elegant pianism from Japanese-born Mitsuko Uchida...
Bald, bellowing and looking like Geoffrey Holder in the 7-Up commercials ("Crisp and clean, no caffeine, ha ha ha!"), Quist's Mikado is truly hilarious. His effervescent "Let the punishment fit the crime" is one of the funniest moments of the production...
...know, everybody likes to win, but I'm kind of unhappy," Coach Peckham said. "At this meet my guys were not as crisp as they should have been...