Word: mintings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Music for a Summer Night (ABC, 7:30-8:30 p.m.). Flower Drum Song's Anita Ellis and the Metropolitan Opera's Heidi Krall, among others, providing mint-julep entertainment...
...engine back from 125 m.p.h. to 100 m.p.h., flew most of the way "right on the deck" in good weather at less than 500 ft. Conrad's only crisis came as he neared the coast of Texas, when he decided to drink some tea. "The Arabs put mint in it, and it had become rancid," he explained. "Boy, was I sick!" "Everybody likes to break a record," he said after landing. "I finally decided to do it officially." He flew on to San Francisco, got an enthusiastic welcome from the two youngest of his ten children Francesco...
...declared an economic boycott against non-African bus companies, shops, and products. Picketing gangs stood outside rural Indian stores to keep farmers away by force, to the delight of African merchants down the road, who promptly raised their prices. Two hundred Africans who own cars have made a mint as taxi operators since a boycott was declared against the white-owned bus line...
...special feature is a stretch of bench that might be marked in Braille, "Please touch the flowers." Designed for blind children, it contains cacti without thorns, a patch of herbs including several fragrant geraniums such as the lemon, rose, nutmeg and mint varieties. Within hours of its dedication, the exhibit's leaves had been thoroughly pawed, and many a blind child had pressed scented fingers to nostrils dilating with the joy of discovery...
Gone were the shroudlike lines of the chemise and the rib-pinching high waists of the Empire line. In their place was a natural, gaily colored (mint green, bright red and blue, fuchsia and violet) silhouette with lines round enough to brighten the dullest male...