Word: mix
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Another 50 sodden citizens wait inside. They are lining up to buy ice cream-carob, perhaps, or banana coffee, since a temporary shortage of fine cinnamon has made the obvious first choice of chocolate-cinnamon-raisin unavailable-at a cost of $1.60 for a large scoop with one mix-in, or $2 for a large scoop with three mix-ins. A mix-in, for those who have not yet followed aerobic eating into its postmodern era, may be butterscotch chips and walnuts, pulverized Reese's peanut butter cups, crushed Oreos, M & Ms or-in some temples of asceticism-granola...
This is the very Steve's where the legendary Steve Herrell, a Boston cab driver and sometime high school teacher, popularized the whole mind-and-body-expanding idea of mix-ins when he founded the place back in 1973. History was made, served and spooned here. Herrell sold his shop to the brothers Joey and Nino Crugnale in 1977 because he wanted to go west; he got as far as Northampton, where he now operates Steve Herrell's Ice Cream. Joey Crugnale, who shyly describes his outrageously heavy and rich ice cream as "the best," keeps a player...
Theologian Karl Earth's last letters mix vitriol, compassion...
...smoke marijuana for the same purpose, or mix their C with heroin in a process called "speedballing" or "boy-girl." This produces a tug-of-war in which the exhilaration of coke is undercut by the heroin. As one former user describes the sensation, "It's like taking an elevator at 100 m.p.h. to the top of the Empire State Building and then someone cuts the cable." A few middle class users who dabble with heroin in conjunction with cocaine smoke it rather than inject it in their veins like the ghetto kid. This, they believe, prevents addiction...
Most nuclear reactors and some nuclear weapons use a rare isotope of uranium called U-235. To explode, the U-235 must be relatively pure, preferably 90% or more. Commercial U.S. reactors, by comparison, usually run on a mix containing only 3% U-235. This hampers would-be bombsmiths, since enriching U-235 to a high level demands extremely complex separation techniques that are still beyond the capability of all but the most advanced industrial countries. Yet there are some relatively simple ways of overcoming this handicap...