Word: lemon
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...been thrown over the engines, Frank Anderson and his helpers were too tired to talk about being tired. Back at the barn, Frank milked again, while Jack fed the horse and slopped the pigs. Then the men fell to Zula's thick round steak, fried potatoes, tomatoes, lemon-meringue...
...ensigns, David L. Anderson and Leon D. Smith, had armed the bomb within 20 minutes after takeoff. Soaring at 30,000 feet above the polka-dotted lagoon, Dave's Dream made a dry run into the northeast wind. Bombardier Major Harold H. Wood-known to his crewmates as "Lemon Bar" because of his success at officers'-club slot machines-twirled the knobs on his bombsight, tried to line up the target ship Nevada with the cross hairs of his eyepiece. Topside, the Nevada had been painted a livid orange, striped with white. She wore her campaign ribbons painted...
...producing high quality chemicals. But it was still small in 1923, when it began producing citric acid by a new process, the vegetative fermentation of sugar. Up till then citric acid, the most widely used organic acid in the food and beverage field, was produced chiefly in Europe from lemon and lime juice. With its new process, Pfizer broke the foreign monopoly...
...courtyard's dust swirls, a grey Brahmin bull had Viva Alemán charcoaled on its sides. Above, in the open galleries, fiery Oaxaca mole, beans, hot tortillas, lemon pop covered the long tables at which the dusty, sweating politicos ate greedily. A four-piece band played...
With a British subsidy to help, Abdullah had found life in Trans-Jordan tolerable enough. He rises at crack of dawn each day and at 7 o'clock drives in his lemon-colored limousine to an office in the center of Amman. There for two hours he works. Then he returns to his gaudy palace on one of Amman's five hilltops and reads Arabic poetry. After a hearty lunch (favorite dish: chicken pilaf) he attends to more official business. More often he withdraws to a black Bedouin tent in the backyard of his palace, to receive...