His son dropped the family name of Litvinsky for the blander one of Phillips.

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Mexican tradition notwithstanding, blander fare is typically easier to digest, says Katz.

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Such forgetfulness can be partly blamed on a dominant national press that tends to report the grotesque exceptions not the blander rule.

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The angrier she became, the blander and more reasonable he would be.

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The Daily Mail reported customer complaints over what critics deemed a blander, more brittle biscuit - however, the company claims it hasn't changed the recipe for more than two years.

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Livingstone was a feisty Labour member of Parliament, but when his party picked a blander, less troublesome candidate for mayor, he stood as an independent and cruised to victory.

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He stopped using jelly on his peanut-butter biscuits to decrease sugar content and started making a blander veal stock for some dishes, including Rover Easy, which has scrambled eggs with applewood smoked bacon bits.

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