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.
TUNNEY
Tunney, Gene Tunney, James Joseph Tunney
(noun) United States prizefighter who won the world heavyweight championship by defeating Jack Dempsey twice (1898-1978)
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INTUITIVELY
(adverb) in an intuitive manner; “inventors seem to have chosen intuitively a combination of explosive and aggressive sounds as warning signals to be used on automobiles”
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