Word: lime
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...when he sweeps back the curtain in his air-conditioned hotel room, to survey a velvety emerald view of rice fields, crew-cut golfing greens, jagged peaks with their heads in the clouds, or the azure ocean. It may come as he sits sipping a mai tai (assorted rums, lime, sugar and pineapple), served by a statuesque dark-haired wahine in a billowing muu muu with a blood-red anthurium in her hair. It may come even later, as he wanders along a ginger-golden beach. Somehow, everything in Hawaii seems to be soft and warm-the air, the ocean...
...witness stand had hurt him badly. Sheppard did not testify at his second trial and, fortunately for him, neither did Susan Hayes, the attractive lab technician who appeared at Ihe first trial and suggested a motive by admitting she had been Sheppard's mistress. Indeed, This lime, with Susan married and living in California, Ihe prosecution barely gol her name into Ihe record...
...really tough go-goer hangs around the Olds-mobile 442, which squats near the main entrance. If the girl doesn't catch your eye, the color of the car will. "Lemon-lime luster" is very much like citric acid to the eye. It smarts. It glares. It offends. It's guaranteed to prevent scurvy on sight. The girl's nice, however. Her lines almost mitigate the lines she sings; like "442 -- the Groovy-go machine that will tickle your taste buds for action!" "And inside," she promised, "there are goodies galore." G-g-golly...
...soft drinks are so commonly accepted that the Japanese substitute them for barley water as warm-weather refreshers, upper-caste Indians serve them at wedding receptions, and Middle East businessmen offer them to visitors as an alternative to Turkish coffee. Europeans mix their whisky with ginger ale or lemon-lime. White Rhodesians have a fad on for brandy and Coke. Zambian copper-belt workers, who once paid threepence for a home-brewed raspberry drink, now pay sixpence for "sophisticated" sodas. Everywhere, increasing ownership of refrigerators has lifted soft-drink sales. In Hong Kong, U.S. brands hold...
...favorite in my home is the cranberry: two ounces of rum, the juice of one quarter of a large lime, and cranberry juice and ice to fill the glass...