Word: mixes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...seemed to accept this plethora of prosperity and plenty with none of the qualms of conscience which had afflicted it during World War II. Nobody was demanding that men chop the cuffs off their pants, or that women make bandages and adopt a look of austerity. Advertisements for piecrust mix and plumbing plungers made no pretense at all that the product was being gotten out as a reward to "the boys" overseas. There had been no revival of such phrases as "The home front" and "Don't you know there...
...only one to turn him down: Milan's slow-working Giorgio Morandi (TIME, July 18, 1949), who loves to paint bottles as much as Industrialist Verzocchi loves to make bricks. He was unwilling to mix...
...around at 1999 year's end, I should like to submit my recommendation now for the Man of the Century. Please hold it in trust for use by your future editors. Let it then be said of General Douglas MacArthur: "His life was gentle, and the elements so mix'd in him that nature might stand up and say to all the world" (with apologies to Mark Antony), "this was a man who knew the score...
...local newspaper editor (Macdonald Carey), a newcomer seeking an ivory tower after a stormy career as a foreign correspondent, is reluctant to mix in political controversy. But as his conscience is needled by a reporter (Gail Russell) for a Mexican-American weekly, he saves the youth's life during a manhunt, begins to crusade for him, and narrowly averts a lynching at the town jail...
...Advertising must never be "competitive, offensive, tricky, brash." To be on the safe side, Coke's division headquarters in Rio de Janeiro sent along to Rio Preto sample posters, color films for ads, patterns for metal signs, lengthy instruction on how to build billboards, paste up posters, and mix paste (". . . use three gallons of water to each pound of flour . . . Stir up the flour into a batter with cold water...