Some 16th-century Italian clergymen tried to ban coffee because they believed it to be “satanic.” However, Pope Clement VII loved coffee so much that he lifted the ban and had coffee baptized in 1600.
GOLDMARK
Goldmark, Peter Goldmark, Peter Carl Goldmark
(noun) United States inventor (born in Hungary) who made the first TV broadcast in 1940 and invented the long-playing record in 1948 and pioneered videocassette recording (1906-1977)
Source: WordNet® 3.1
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(adverb) in a sticky viscid manner; “he felt the blood move stickily from his split scalp and trickle down his forehead”
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