Word: simmers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Moral Sanction. Not until the next afternoon did the dark threat of war with the Russian volunteers simmer down. Russia's Bulganin wrote notes to Britain's Eden and France's Mollet in more placid phrases. Nasser's Egypt announced that it had no imminent need of Soviet volunteers after all. The U.N. police force moved into the Suez in sky-blue helmet liners, men out of faraway places clothed in the weighty moral sanction of the U.N. General Assembly (see FOREIGN NEWS...
...serving take two dressed quail, simmer in one pint of chicken broth for 15 minutes; remove birds from broth and pluck meat from bones, returning the meat (finely chopped) to broth until cooked; thicken with one tablespoon of flour, season to taste and serve on toast points or with hominy grits. (The President prefers grits...
...crisis began to simmer a fortnight ago, involving Lott's right to discipline an outspoken golpista army colonel. This dispute turned into a decisive test of strength between Lott and the golpe faction. In the midst of the crisis, a heart attack flattened President Joāo Café Filho, and the Speaker of the Chamber of Deputies, Carlos Luz, took over as Brazil's Acting President. Luz, suspected of being a golpista, ruled against War Minster Lott in the affair of the loose-lipped colonel. Lott resigned, and Luz promptly named a golpista general as War Minister...
...whips up the classic recipe for a melodramatic potboiler: mix two engaging scoundrels (Stewart Granger and Jean Simmons) with a brace of murders, add a pinch of blackmail, a generous helping of blue London fog, some bilious green Edwardian interiors, the clop-clop of hansom cabs, and allow to simmer for 90 minutes over a gaslight flame...
...virus is inactivated by mixing it with a formaldehyde solution. The key to the correct process is using just the right amount of formaldehyde and letting the brew simmer for just the right duration; too much or too long may cook the virus to a point where the vaccine is useless, while the opposite may allow live virus to remain. Under the new PHS safety procedures, manufacturers must make numerous tests on large batches of the formaldehyde-virus broth (only small samples were tested before). Now samples of every batch of vaccine are submitted to PHS laboratories (earlier, PHS examined...