Word: amalgamates
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...feels the giddiness deep in his gut: an amalgam of excitement, anticipation and, he admits only to himself, a touch of fear. His unit has just been alerted for a mass jump. With each ritualistic step from now until he is back on the ground, the giddiness will return. That is part of all this, a part the Paratrooper likes best...
...lead opinion, Burger said that the First Amendment, which the court did not consider in the earlier case, guarantees the press a right to attend and report on trials. True, the First Amendment does not specifically say so. But, said Burger, the right is implicit in the "amalgam of the First Amendment guarantees of speech and press." Anyway, he said, the tradition of open trials goes back beyond the Constitution, to the earliest beginnings of English common...
...logically" from the Superman statements of Neitzsche? Alain de Benoist, one of the espousers of the French "New Right" belief in genetic superiority, is also violently anti--Christian; does that mean that E.O. Wilson is anti-Christian as well? But all this could follow from the queasy logic of amalgam which the writers...
...federal run of things is complicated enough so that specific interests are being lost," says Donna L. Shavlik, associate director of the Office of Women in Higher Education of the American Council on Education. Marcia K. Sharp '68, director of the Women's College Coalition, a Washington-based amalgam of 67 single-sex institutions, agrees with Shavlik's assessment. The coalition, says Sharp, needs "to spearhead a better understanding of what the positive elements" of women's colleges are. Sharp says that her group would "like to have women's institutions consulted regularly when the government makes decisions...
...Even more surprising is Mary Steenburgen as the junior bank officer who converts both the Ripper's and Wells' antique pounds into dollars and is thus the crucial link in their chase. Her portrayal of a liberated woman fighting and loving in two centuries is a unique amalgam of vulnerability and slow-spoken shrewdness...