Word: amalgamate
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...amalgam of the Mundt-Nixon, Mundt-Ferguson, McCarran, and Kilgore proposals, the McCarran Act provides for the registration of all Communists and officers of Communist groups. It requires these groups to label all their property and literature "disseminated by a Communist organization." It bars members of such organizations from obtaining passports as well as from working for the government or in defense plants...
...transition has been made easy by the fact that the highbrow journals themselves are becoming increasingly conventional in their stories. Thus, the distance between high and middlebrow is gradually shortening, and the two are merging to form a dubious amalgam : the muddy-brow...