Word: mixes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...officer" by "being charming." If this did not work, they would "manufacture" evidence in order to have the officer removed. When plans for Operation Overlord (the cross-Channel invasion) were drafted in 1943, the British, who had helped to draw them up, tried to stall-for "the British always mix political with military motives." When Operation Overlord was finally forced down their throats, Eisenhower was given the big job, but "of course [he] had nothing whatever to do with leading the invasion." The British had seen to it that they were in actual charge on land...
...bartender named Moe Green, hired to mix drinks for the Hunter College lounge, promptly invented a UNO cocktail (vodka, French vermouth, Swedish punch and a dash of orange bitters.) "It's a beauty," said Moe. "It'll make sour tempers sweet, and have 'em all talking the same language-if they can still talk." One Joe Forestieri, proprietor of a Bronx hash-house called the College Luncheonette, prepared to re-name it UNO Joe's. He explained carefully: "You could take it in two ways." Gate crashers schemed to get into UNO meetings with a vigor...
Under this sense-making accounting plan, 1946 profits will probably be eaten up by the $7,000,000 which Douglas expects to spend to develop the DC-8 "Mix-master." To make matters worse, in Donald Douglas' characteristically gloomy view, no one has yet ordered any Mix-masters. Stockholders were not so worried: solid, conservative Douglas Aircraft Co. spends no big money without getting a good airplane to sell...
...Pressure groups are on the march.. . . The gold dust thrown in all our eyes, by political abracadabra, only confuses, with gain to no one except temporary power to the economic magicians. We must mix brains with our brawn if we would keep our world leadership. We must steady ourselves in these emotional sweeps and keep our heads or the ship of democracy will wallow in this sea of confusion, spring a leak and disintegrate. . . . The whole world is watching us, amazed at the exhibition of a giant who cannot pull himself together even to take care...
...French Touch. Because he believes that "an island fortress must always be on its guard against provincialism," Connolly prints French poetry to mix with book reviews, essays on novelist-philosophers, letters from Continental capitals (by such contributors as Clarissa Churchill, Winston's niece), the autobiography of still sprightly Painter Augustus John (now at Installment XVI). In politics Connolly is a Socialist, but (to the bafflement of the literary left) he thinks that is none of his magazine's business...