Word: rind
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...such synthetic juices as General Foods' Tang, they have been experimenting with dried citrus crystals that can be mixed with water to make juice, are now selling them to the Armed Forces. Growers are also turning out a line of citrus byproducts, including paint bases refined from rind...
Surrounding it is a dense, many-layered rind of preface, commentary and index, compiled by a scholarly ass named Charles Kinbote. This obtuse fellow imagines himself to have been a great friend of Shade's. Actually, as is absurdly and delightfully evident after a few pages, Kinbote knew the old poet for only a few months, and their friendship consisted of bare toleration on Shade's side...
...this heat, forming the oceans of water or ammonia into which the falling molecules (formed at the impressive rate of ten pounds per square mile per year) dissolve. This process, says Sagan, "would create the conditions necessary for complex pre-biological organic reactions." By his reckoning, Jupiter's rind may not be icy at all, and its surface temperature (70° F.) may be balmy enough to support the same evolutionary process that on earth led from molecules...
...rotten tree lives only in its rind...
...slogs through his days dulled with despair, not even bothering to stew himself with vodka. Then he sees a five-year-old orphan boy gnawing at a melon rind. Out of pity and his own sorrow, he tells the child that he is his father. The boy is not really fooled, but he accepts the pretense with joy. The two walk off down a mud road to the man's village, where he will take up life as a carpenter again...