Word: purees
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...outraged citizenry. But in the Philadelphia Inquirer, Columnist Ollie Crawford argued: "The Romans were right-there's no show like watching people thrown to the lions. " Manhattan radio station WNEW hired Psychologist Ernest Dichter to explain it all. He concluded that the hearings were supersoap opera: "The pure and wonderful hero was Kefauver, the 'Just Plain Bill' was righteous, moralistic Senator Tobey . . . As a psychologist, I wonder if it was a desire to feel superior that so fascinated the millions of us who heard Virginia Hill...
...have had in mind a mixture of beryllium and radium, the usual laboratory source of small numbers of neutrons. When bombarded by alpha-particles from radium, beryllium releases neutrons and turns into ordinary carbon. But he may have been right in saying that the central sphere was made of, pure beryllium. Plutonium itself emits alpha-particles, which might knock useful neutrons out of the beryllium...
...Pure Ingredients. Porter probably originated in London's pubs in the early 18th Century, but legend has it that the father of Founder Arthur Guinness discovered it while brewing for an Irish bishop. In making beer one day he burned the barley and accidentally turned out a dark, bitter brew that everyone liked. Whoever discovered it, the brew came to be known as porter because of its popularity among laborers and porters. An enterprising brewer put out an even stronger beer called "stout porter." In Ireland, only the visitor asks for "Guinness." Irishmen simply ask for "a pint" when...
...Pure Heresy. By the end of the 18th Century, Guinness, grown to be the biggest brewery in Ireland, was rocked by the only crisis that has ever really shaken the firm. In Catholic Ireland, the Protestant Guinnesses were accused of signing an anti-Catholic petition, and Guinness was boycotted as "Protestant Porter." Explained a contemporary satirist: "A learned doctor has analyzed the anti-popery porter [and found it produces] a disposition to bowels particularly lax, an inclination to pravity and to singing praises of the Lord through the nose." The trouble was, he said, that Guinness had its porter makers...
...boss of Guinness is the second Earl of Iveagh (rhymes with diver), 76, pink-cheeked, white-haired great-great-grandson of the founder. Lord Iveagh, who by preference and habit drinks only Guinness or water, was twice winner (1895-96) of the Diamond Sculls at the Henley Regatta, pioneered pure milk production in England, now runs a dairy farm on his 23,000-acre estate in England. Lord Iveagh and the Guinness family still have controlling stock in the company which, in 1950, earned ?1.9 million ($5.3 million...