Word: amalgamates
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...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...
Organized particularly for the purpose of pushing fair educational practices legislation, the Massachusetts Committee for Equality in Education is an amalgam of some 30 political and religious organizations and independent individuals. The Harvard Teachers Union and the Students for Democratic Action are on its letterhead...
...Winters, 26, has made solid hits in two successive pictures. The other was A Double Life, in which she played the waitress who got strangled. She is no longer regarded as just another cute platinum blonde: she has graduated into the actress category. Her bosses speak hopefully of "an amalgam of Harlow and Lombard," and are billing her as "the blonde bombshell." If she is not as bold as Harlow nor as brittle as Lombard, she is frequently as bouncy as Betty Hutton and as breezy as Grable. Even in repose, she is still a nifty blonde...
...World War II veterans have had their dentist bills paid by the U.S. Government. Total cost to the taxpayers: $67 million. The claims of 291,330 veterans for free dentistry are now going through the VA works. Another 200,000 are being treated (treatments may include everything from an amalgam filling to a full plate). In 1947 657,254 treatments were given at a cost of $42,698,627. Of these, 600,400 were by local dentists on a fee basis, the rest by the VA's own staff dentists...
...Army engineers and the U. S. Reclamation Bureau, was already in the blueprint stage, with some construction under way. The other, a Missouri Valley Authority following the general pattern of the TVA, was only on paper. The difference between them was that the Pick-Sloan plan was an amalgam of Federal and State agencies, and of compromises between proponents of irrigation and navigation, while the MVA would be an independent regional agency treating the river as a single problem transcending state boundaries...