Word: amalgamate
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...like an echo from a Ziegfeld revue. A couple whisked onstage to do a comic turn, punctuated with the oddly archaic slang of the hepcat: "Hey, baby! Let's have a ball!" Occasion : the Manhattan opening of Japan's all-girl Takarazuka Dance Theater, an amalgam of the Folies-Bergere, the Radio City Rockettes, and native Kabuki styles...
...training periods for men they desire to promote to higher jobs. For the executive, company sponsorship can be the touch of the sword-promotion--and it is not lightly regarded. Over half the class is earmarked for a specific promotion before they take the course. They fall into the amalgam of controllers, assistant treasurers, sales managers, and production engineers labeled "middle management" and the course prepares them for "top management...
...earnest. A onetime follower of Dictator Jorge Ubico (1931-44), Ydigoras had fought two elections in the past four months. When he ran behind in the first, his followers cried fraud, rioted in the streets and forced the government to nullify the results. With the support of an amalgam of big landlords and conservative Roman Catholics, he won the second election six weeks ago with a 39% of the vote in a four-man race. But until the victory was confirmed by Congress, the threat of mob violence hung over Guatemala City. For the sake of future good relations with...
...Consort. More than almost any other public office in all the world, the job of consort to a reigning Queen is what its holder chooses to make it. The vast, amorphous amalgam of protocol, precedent, precept and law which is the British constitution contains no passages outlining a consort's duty. Most of the consorts who preceded Philip did just what they chose. With a prosperous kingdom of his own, Philip of Spain only occasionally visited the British realm of his wife Mary Tudor, who reigned from 1553 to 1558. Methodical William of Orange (1689-1702), declaring firmly that...
...world, the war between the sexes starts early, and the casualty lists are stupendous. One of the combatants is Ruby, who at 16 already has "a rather sagging and accessible look, as if defeat would be natural to her." Ruby wanders into a blackberry patch with Frank, a "strange amalgam of cruelty, license, fear, bombast and bullying." Then there is Vivian, who never does find her rich old man. Instead, she gets slapped around by a sailor. "His body closed in on her and there was a brief violent scuffle, with Vivian pounding at him, trying to bring her knee...