Word: sticks
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Both coffees manage to create more than a dozen exotic varities from the basic grinds. Cappucino and Mocha are the most popular at the Capriccio. To make the cappucino, a cinammon stick is mixed in the coffee. Tulla prepares an `"angel's bosom" which is sugared Cuban blend topped with a mound of whipped cream and a maraschino cherry. Neither place has a license to diverge into to inviting mixtures of coffee and rum or whiskey. Cook regrets this and notes, "A lot of good drinks are missed that...
...reason for better Aussie-Japanese relations. When asked why Australia did not buy more Japanese manufactured goods to balance Japan's purchases of Australian wool (Japan is now Australia's second-best customer), he frankly pointed up the greatest difficulty in the way of making the rapprochement stick: "Our large export income cannot be neatly balanced, because we have great industries that we are encouraging." But the ice had been broken. In the Japanese Diet Menzies was given a standing ovation...
...opening triumph. There were, after all, other armies in Jordan. He invited Abu Nuwar to take a fortnight's leave in Syria, and kept on former Premier Nabulsi (known as "the ten-faced man") as Foreign Minister in a new Cabinet. King Hussein carefully proclaimed that Jordan would stick to its policy of "positive neutrality" and reject "imperialism" and foreign alliances. Then he talked Major General Ali Hayari, who comes from Abu Nuwar's home village of Salt, into taking over the army command, promising him a free hand...
...almost every AEC decision relating to security, business development of atomic energy, and H-bomb tests, there has been only one dissenting voice on the Commission. Thomas Murray, the only Truman appointee to stick it out, has constantly opposed the AEC majority whenever he felt that it was acting as a rubber stamp for Strauss. As a result of his criticisms, Murray and Strauss are continually at each other's throats. If Murray's comments were only negative, his value to the Commission would be questionable. As it is, however, Murray has been partially responsible for much...
...separate meeting. Aramburu made it plain to the brass that once the constitution is revised, he will stick to his plan to hold general elections next February and turn over power to whatever government is chosen. The twin elections that Aramburu plans will be the country's first free and fair votes in eleven years...