Word: mints
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Reassembly of the interior was a more detailed and painstaking work. Bear heads, for instance, were carved on newel posts, faithful to an old photograph and to a few pieces of the original stairway which were found in a Sacramento church. The mint-green assembly chamber now dazzles visitors with its crystal chandeliers and 1870s carved desks. The smaller but richer senate chamber blushes with rose carpeting and brocade drapery. Nine other rooms, including offices of former Governors, have been restored as an exhibit at a cost of $1.7 million...
...gimmick, so why not Rooney? And even if his weekly spots aren't always stimulating and funny, they do provide a somewhat refreshing change of pace to the aggressively serious tone which dominates the rest of "60 Minutes." Andy Rooney is the sprig of parsley, the after dinner mint to cap off a heavy meal. There is room on television for an Andy Rooney...
...explains, just a Snickers bar and some penny candy. The average sale is, in fact, about $1.50, Higgins says, but that takes into account the 340 sales a day of a single can of soda, the people who come just for a break and buy a single three-cent mint, and, conversely, the ones who are locked into a pattern of four or five dollars worth a night...
...dessert. They are wrong. What is clear is that at this stage in the decline of the West, instinct tells us that we have a right to live in the golden age of something. Why should that something be acid rain or rocket launchers? Why not-an Oreo-mint cone, please, with a scoop of cantaloupe, and jimmies-do our wistful dreaming about one of civilization's benign marvels, ice cream? -By John Skow...
Zogby talked freely about the problems of using natural flavors. Real vanilla beans add flecks to the mix, and some customers used to the cheaper artificial flavor vanillin complain of dirty ice cream. Real mint flavor is as clear as gin, not green. A blend of pumpkin and squash tastes more like pumpkin than pumpkin alone does, but squash ice cream sounds dreadful, so the firm's flavorers had to work harder and stick with pumpkin. Most cherry ice cream contains bright red bits of cherries that have been embalmed, as maraschinos are-bleached white with formaldehyde and then...