Word: organisms
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Between seizures of hot blood and high deeds, the heroes-one for each generation -make corn squeezings. They are artists who operate the pot still as if it were a pipe organ, mixing corn and small grain with boiling water, adding yeast, and from this wort-which is what the mash is called-distilling clear ethyl alcohol. Redistilled to remove foul-tasting fusel oil, aged for color and character in charred oak casks, the alcohol becomes whisky. Robinson is so explicit that an attentive reader with no fear of federal agents could try it himself...
Accompanied by a piano and a Hammond organ, a 23-member company calling itself American Savoyards does a different Gilbert & Sullivan operetta each week, has won so large a following that it has already staged second repeat performances of H.M.S. Pinafore, The Mikado and The Pirates of Penzance. An idea of rare originality is realized in The Fantasticks, a musical in masque form based on Rostand's Les Romanesques. Since last spring, Jerome Kern's Leave It to Jane (1917) has been exploiting a rich vein of nostalgia: snowy-browed patrons go back and back again, are beginning...
...nationalization move was conducted on legalistic lines. But the display of legitimacy was mere show-window stuff for the fellahin in Cairo's bazaars. In truth. Cairo's privately owned newspapers had embarrassed Nasser by making money, an endeavor in which his house organ. Al Gumhuria, has notably failed...
Next day the only newspaper published in Istanbul or Ankara was Menderes' Democratic Party organ, Zajer. Its caption (over a photo snapped just before the storm struck in the square): TREMENDOUS OVATION GIVEN OUR PRIME MINISTER SHOWS AFFECTION OF PEOPLE. But Foreign Minister Fatin Zorlu acknowledged that some 50 demonstrators had been arrested after the "ovation," added grimly: "The parliamentary inquiry will take care of them...
...matter how carefully management may say it, workers often do not understand what the boss is trying to get across to them. So reported Princeton's Opinion Research Corp. last week. Only 12% of the workers fully comprehend the average company house-organ article, said the report...