Word: tang
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...eyes. The only color was in the shops, stocked especially for the holiday season with eggs, wurst of all kinds, toys, cosmetics, porcelain and even-wonder of wonders-oranges. The Vopos seemed to be the major consumers of these tropical delicacies, and every snowy crossing point reeked with the tang of orange peel. But everyone knew that by mid-January the East Berlin grocery shops would be back to their drab staples: potatoes, cabbages and weary lentils...
...religious neutrality, he ceremonially greeted Saigon's Roman Catholic Archbishop Nguyen Van Binh on his return from Rome, also dispatched a helicopter to bring home Le Thanh Tat, chief of the eccentric Cao Dai politico-religious sect, who had been exiled in Cambodia.* The air carried an unmistakable tang of political fever. Repeatedly Big Minh assured visitors of his hope to hold elections "if possible" in six to twelve months. But the U.S. is in no hurry for him to do so; the country is so politically disorganized, Washington fears, that it will take longer than that to guarantee...
...tale of dissolution that unfolded before the first-night audience in Venice's Theater of St. John and St. Paul had the tang of vintage Tennessee Williams. It was rife with adultery and assassination, seduction and suicide, torture and a touch of transvestism. But the première took place 321 years ago, the format was operatic, and its author was the revered "father of modern opera" himself, Claudio Monteverdi...
...fruit. Despite these differences, both regions share common problems. Citrus farming remains the least mechanized part of all agriculture, and growers are trying to perfect practical picking and sorting machines to cut the high cost of labor. Fearful of potential inroads by 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...
...this has a manly, adventurous tang and the animals are so spirited and graceful that they merit every bit of superbly photographed film footage they get. When the beasts are off camera, the film is a beastly drag. Elsa Martinelli wants to be roped and wedding-banded by Wayne, but big John shies away from any species that a zoo will not buy. The other three white hunters follow the spoor of a comely teen-ager (Michele Girardon). Director Howard Hawks kids these silly romances, but two hours and 40 minutes among the wildebeests is apt to send moviegoers stampeding...