Word: crystallizer
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Flip a coin, consult a crystal...
...have been misled by one of my distinguished colleagues who rushed into print Sunday morning stating that the performance could hardly be equaled at Covent Garden or any European capital. Unfortunately his paper goes to bed at midnight, whereas the performance dragged on desperately until 2:15. His crystal ball must have been out of order...
...Passage to India was first published in 1924. Beautiful, ironic, crystal-clear, intense - "one of the saddest, keenest, most beautifully written ironic novels of the time" - at once "a political document of the first importance," "a masterpiece of subtle characterization" with "a story that moved like a house on fire," A Passage to India evoked tremendous critical enthusiasm. In 20 years it sold almost 100,000 copies in the U.S., yet it never became an integral part of ordinary U.S. cultural life or political thought...
...World War II equivalent of the homemade crystal set (circa 1920) with its galena rock and cat's whisker, turned up in force on the Anzio Beachhead. One of hundreds of U.S. infantrymen who made foxhole receivers to kill time and boredom at Anzio, Lieut. M. L. Rupert, sent a diagram and description of the set to the Marlin Firearms Co. (razor blades, etc.). Wrote...
...military conduct of the war is outside this campaign. . . . General Marshall and Admiral King are doing a superb job. Thank God for both of them. Let me make it crystal clear that a change of Administration next January cannot and will not involve any change in the military conduct...