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ginger
Herbaceous perennial plant (Zingiber officinale; family Zingiberaceae), probably native to SE Asia, or its aromatic, pungent rhizome, which is used as a spice, flavoring, food, and medicine. The spice has a slightly biting taste and is used, usually dried and ground, to flavor breads, sauces, curry dishes, confections, pickles, and ginger ale. The fresh rhizome, green ginger, is used in cooking. The leafy stems of the plant bear flowers in dense, conelike spikes. Oil distilled from the rhizome is used in foods and perfumes.


Inge
U.S. playwright and screenwriter. Born in Independence, Kan., he worked as a schoolteacher (1937-49) and moonlighted as drama editor of the St. Louis Star-Times (1943-46). His first play, Farther Off from Heaven (1947), was revised for Broadway as The Dark at the Top of the Stairs (1957; film, 1960). He is best known for his plays Come Back, Little Sheba (1950; film, 1952), Picnic (1953, Pulitzer Prize; film, 1956), and Bus Stop (1955; film, 1956), and for his original screenplay for Splendor in the Grass (1961, Academy Award). He was one of the first dramatists to explore small-town life in the Midwest.


Siegel
U.S. gangster. Born in Brooklyn, N.Y., he began his career extorting money from Jewish peddlers on New York's Lower East Side. He joined with M. Lansky and began operating bootlegging and gambling rackets; they later formed the forerunner of Murder, Inc. In 1937 he was sent to develop rackets on the West Coast, and soon set up gambling dens and ships as well as narcotics smuggling and blackmail operations. In 1945 he built the Flamingo Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas. Originally budgeted at $1.5 million, its cost was driven to $6 million through his skimming. This angered Lansky and other bosses, and Siegel was shot down in his home.


Siegen
German painter and engraver. His earliest dated mezzotint was a portrait of Amelia Elizabeth of Hesse-Kassel (1642); in its dedication he claimed the invention of the mezzotint process, which he described as engraving by dots rather than lines. To produce the dots he used a small roulette, a tool with a fine-toothed wheel. Seven known rouletted mezzotint plates by Siegen survive.


sinter
Mineral deposit with a porous or vesicular texture (having small cavities). Siliceous sinter is a deposit of opaline or amorphous silica that occurs as an incrustation around hot springs and geysers and sometimes forms conical mounds (geyser cones) or terraces. Calcareous sinter, sometimes called tufa, calcareous tufa, or calc-tufa, is a deposit of calcium carbonate.


Synge
Irish playwright. After studying languages and music in Dublin and France, he was inspired by W. B. Yeats with enthusiasm for the Irish language and people. From 1899 to 1902 he spent his summers on the Aran Islands, and he based his first plays, In the Shadow of the Glen (1903) and Riders to the Sea (1904), on ...

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