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Word: melba (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...make sure cranky toddlers do not prompt their parents to hurry too much, Hypermart offers a Ball Room, where parents can deposit their children to be supervised. But anyone who wants to shop in a 200,000-sq.-ft. store should remember to don jogging shoes. Says Melba Lincoln, a Dallas homemaker: "Shopping here is like running a marathon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Here Come Malls Without Walls | 2/8/1988 | See Source »

Besides weighing in with wine coolers in three flavors, Seagram last month began test-marketing an unusual liquor-based hybrid called Golden Spirits, which is flavored with natural fruit essences to produce mixtures like peach- melba rum. "They are selling extraordinarily well," says House of Seagram President Edgar Bronfman Jr. Rival distillers are blending other cocktails. Connecticut's Heublein, maker of Smirnoff vodka, is test-marketing Tropic Freezers, which turn into frozen drinks like strawberry daiquiris after about six hours in a customer's freezer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Blithe Spirits for the Sober Set | 8/18/1986 | See Source »

...rock concert is a new type of fundraising method for AHA. Melba J. Haufe, director of fundraising for the group, said yesterday. "We've never done a rock concert before, but we're every excited since we will be able to reach a lot of young people this way." Haufe said. "It's radically different from our usual benefit jog-a-thon in the financial com- mittment and complexity of the arrangements that have to be made before it's actually pulled off," she added...

Author: By F. MARK Muro, | Title: Pousette-Dart Band Might Give Benefit | 1/11/1980 | See Source »

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