Word: amalgam
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...Yazoo Motel was taken over en bloc by the White House, with the mystically regarded communications equipment quartered there. In Stubb's restaurant next door. Sheriff Homer Hood showed up in a suit and tie for the first time in recent memory, and at lunches there was an amalgam of reporters, cameramen, White House people, Secret Service and old country boys from the seed stores, feed stores and sawmills, who seemed to wish to preserve an integrity of disinterest but shamed themselves with sneaky over-the-shoulder glances at the outlanders. People watched the national TV news every night...
...leaving in 1930, Barzini narrowly escaped the plague of disillusion that followed in the wake of the Depression. To the weary European of 68, the U.S. remains the only place he can still find a special amalgam of innocence and expectation...
...year ago, on June 16, the fury and frustration of South Africa's blacks exploded in rioting at Soweto, the huge (estimated population: 1.2 million) amalgam of segregated townships on the outskirts of Johannesburg. The violence -and counterviolence by South African security forces-spread to other black ghettos. By the time the "disturbances" subsided in December, 618 had died, nearly half the number of lives lost in Ulster's eight years of bloody civil strife...
Died. Saburo Eda, 69, a founder and former vice chairman of Japan's Socialist Party; of acute hepatitis; in Tokyo. Eda hoped that Japanese socialism would create an amalgam reflecting the Soviet Union's social-security system, Britain's parliamentary democracy and the U.S. standard of living. He urged his party to de-emphasize Marxian credos like class war and nationalization. But the party became increasingly radical and Eda left it last March, hoping to form his own more moderate group...
...amalgam of these categories brought Turgenev his widest recognition. Enraptured by the Spanish singer, he reached back for lyric memories of his rural Russian youth. The Sportsman's Sketches provides a landscape with figures-peasants and hunters who wander in a remote and somehow doomed pastorale. The book was to become a profound influence on Hemingway, and Poet Randall Jarrell called its evocations of the countryside "the best of all possible worlds." Pritchett agrees. "There are two masters of seeing in Russian literature," he observes. "Tolstoy sees exactly as if he were an animal or a bird: and what...