Word: tempts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Charlie Mortimer believes that there is still a great future in convenience foods: "their growth is just beginning." Better methods of packaging, freezing, mixing and cooking are on the way to tempt the housewife. She may soon be able to duplicate the cooking feats of big hotels and restaurants; many of them now move individual meals from freezer to plate in two minutes via an infra-red range. A new method of freeze drying may replace many of the present frozen foods with dehydrated foods that will not have to be kept in a freezer...
...Flesh. In London, the Anglican magazine Prism urged an investigation of British-made horror movies, but mildly suggested that nudist movies cannot long tempt the faithful, because sitting through bare-skin epics "produces a tedium so oppressive that it seems impossible that they can do harm: rather, they seem to give a hint of the timelessness of hell...
...Saturday night," announced George Davidson, as if he were addressing an audience of 200, "and everybody has something to do. But their diversions tempt me no more; tonight I shall stay in my room and study." He picked up a laundry box, wrote the name of a course on each side, and flipped it. "Shakespeare," he discovered after the box had landed, "Henry...
...weaken the West far more than the Soviet Union. The Russians ask the elimination of foreign bases and nuclear weapons, followed, not accompanied, by inspection. Even if the Soviets carried out this process in good faith, their superior ground forces would give them a military advantage which might well tempt them into provoking limited peripheral conflicts without fear of nuclear retaliation. The next step, or possibly a concurrent one, according to Khrushchev, would be the removal of foreign troops from western and central Europe: the United States would pull back 3000 miles across an ocean; the Soviet Union would pull...
Miguel Antonio Enrique Francisco Estrada (John Saxon), a first-generation Puerto Rican-New Yorker, is just out of stir and determined to go straight; he is a solid, workmanlike thug, though, and the old gang wants him back. They tempt him with a sex moll (Linda Cristal), "just up from Puerto Rico and full of sugar cane." Will he have one lump or two? He hesitates-then takes the whole bowl...