Word: blanding
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Corwin took off in June with CBS Recorder Lee Bland and 225 pounds of magnetic wire-recording equipment. Four months, 42,000 miles and 16 countries later they had 100 hours of recorded interviews with prince and fellah, commissar and coolie, pundit and stevedore. The English transcript filled 3,700 typed pages. For three months Corwin, four recording engineers and six typists chewed at this great bulk, finally worked it down to a hard core. Last week, the first of 13 One World Flight broadcasts incorporating the material was aired over...
Tush, tush, said a bland U.S. State Department spokesman next day, there was no ultimatum; the Russians were entirely within their rights. Later, Under Secretary of State Dean Acheson admitted that the State Department had had no official communication from Dairen on which to base these statements...
Onward & Upward. Ben McKelway, brother of blond, bland St. Clair McKelway of the New Yorker and Hollywood, has risen steadily in the Star's white-tiled, Gothic pile at 11th and Pennsylvania Avenue ever since patriarchal Theodore W. Noyes, its second editor, hired him as a reporter in 1921. Next month he will move into Noyes's triangular, Victorian top-floor office...
...brownstone houses of an old aristocracy, was patterned with pale sunshine. The city was heavy with factory mists and factory stinks. But as much as anything else, smog and smells were evidences of Republican hardihood. On top of City Hall-above the chambers where a bland, bluff Republican machine had reigned with scarcely an interruption for 58 years-Father William Penn lifted a smog-smudged hand in benediction over the city whose wealth and power were created by high tariffs and Republican enterprise...
...liberated G.I.s, of whom 40% were suffering from severe malnutrition, and another 40% were undernourished. Only eight died (a few others were killed by kindness when sympathetic soldiers and civilians threw them indigestible foods as they rode westward from Germany). Wounded and post-operative patients, fed this same bland mixture, were up & about in a third less time than had been customary. Pollack's prediction: the new diet will end doctors' traditional tolerance for patients who dawdle over their convalescence. Furthermore, adds he optimistically, it tastes wonderful - just like ice cream...