Word: minting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...young professor of animal behavior at Oxford, would actually write a book like this one, is a mystery, but it is easily solved. Dawkins probably decided he could cut the academic rhetoric, simplify his writing style to suit the layman, exploit an exciting new angle, and make a mint...
...free gasoline, Carter's aides are announcing that private donations up to $5,000 will be accepted to finance these and other expenses-a limitation meant to exclude undue influence from wealthy corporations. Initial financing will come mostly from a $500,000 advance from Pennsylvania's Franklin Mint on the sale of souvenir inaugural medals, bearing Carter's likeness. The sales may eventually net the inaugural committee $1 million...
...lush, exotic, and unique. On the ferry from Algeciras to Tangier it's easy to become engrossed admiring the approaching scenery and to ignore one's fellow passengers--dispirited, unromantic, impoverished North African laborers. It's tempting to affect an eighteenth-century gentleman merchant's self-esteem when brought mint tea and invited to inspect carpets and bolts of silk in a Moroccan bazaar. But the rotting garbage in the streets is probably more typical of the real East. And to queries about the nature of those mysterious blue crystals in the burlap sack, the reply, translated, will be: "Detergent...
Twenty percent of its population are black. The other 80% are an amalgam of mint-julep aristocrats out of Faulkner's Sartoris clan, Mexican Americans from Texas, Roman Catholic Cajuns in Louisiana, Cubans and Jews in Miami, Vietnamese resettled on the Gulf Coast and Anglo-Saxon Baptists everywhere...
Many of the cigarettes are imported from India, some under the name of Mint Bidis. These contain thorn apple, a common term for the botanist's Datura stramonium, also known as Jimson weed. It can be highly poisonous in large doses and yields strong hallucinatory drugs. One patient, who arrived at the U.C.L.A. Neuropsychiatric Institute in a confused state, out of touch with reality, had smoked six to eight Mint Bidis a day for a week; he needed three days to recover. Another, who had smoked about ten in three hours, had the same reaction but recovered within...