Word: amalgam
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...same advantages which prompted the Scot to join the Englishman in the successful amalgam, which with Wales, became the United Kingdom, do not exist so far as the Korean and the Jap are concerned...
What was left of the Varsity scrimmaged against an amalgam of Jayvees and Freshmen, in which Paul Perkins ripped off a number of long gains on line plunges, and Bart Harvey was particularly outstanding at wingback. Brought up from the D squad in the middle of the session, the baseball captain swept the scrub ends several times, twice running the route...
Like his heroes, Nehru is an intellectual far ahead of the mass of his people, and not quite like them. For though the emphasis in Glimpses of World History is Asiatic, Old Harrovian Nehru is himself an imperfect amalgam of East and West...
...Tibor Koeves brought these glimpses together to produce the first full-length biography of Papen in English. His book helped explain the connection between the shadowy circles in which Papen moves and the shadowy circles under his eyes. It also explained in part the chemistry of that strange political amalgam: Junker aristocrats with Nazi riffraff...
...wide-open town. She furnished bail by the gross to bookmakers and prostitutes, kept a taxi waiting at the door to whisk them out of jail and back to work. But she was also a catalyst that brought underworld and police department into an inevitably corrupt amalgam. At her retirement the San Francisco Chronicle waxed nostalgic: "The Old Lady . . . will take to her rocking chair, draw her shawl about her. . . ." But many a citizen thought simply: "Good riddance...