Word: whisk
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Thousands of Egyptians paid 50 piasters ($1.40) apiece to gawk at the other items of the King's ransom displayed in the palace library. They saw a solid gold, 11-in. replica of the Suez lighthouse, a diamond-encrusted fly-whisk handle. An 18-carat gold bottleholder (still holding a bottle of Pepsi-Cola) stood near...
...objects, everything from paper lanterns and delicate ceramics to wildly abstract sculpture: a 10-ft.-high Centipede, something that looked like Humpty Dumpty with horns and a tail but was called Mister One Man, and something labeled Myself, which showed an almost featureless face topped by six pieces of whisk-broom straw...
...rich deserts and teeming cities where Africa, Asia and Europe converge, revolution, nourished by nationalism and by the slow wrath of miserable peasants, threatened to whisk away all forms and institutions that lack roots in the Middle East's history. Most in danger were the quasi-constitutional monarchies cultivated in the Middle East by British imperialism. They have all the trappings of democracy but little of its spirit. Middle Eastern parliaments represent the ruling classes, but not the ruled; "public opinion" is manipulated, law courts too often protect the rich against the wretched; taxation is designed to promote...
Theseus in the last analysis isn't much of a mouse. The explanation for his smart behavior lies in the relays, which move him around by means of a motor-driven magnet. They remember all his successful moves. So when he makes his second trip, the relays whisk him without an error along the correct path...
...maid service depends on each man. If neatness is your weakness, rest assured that there will be a place for everything and everything will remain there. If you like to live in a state of cluttered order, the deft mop handlers can whisk every speck of dust away and never disturb one half-full whiskey bottle...