Word: amalgamating
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Mild-mannered Teacher Mireles, a determined amalgam of Latin and American, symbolically keeps two books on his desk: Shakespeare and Cervantes. He believes that in time his bilingual children will lead their adults a long way toward inter-American understanding. In Corpus Christi more than 600 adults have enrolled in night Spanish classes in order to keep up with their children...
...Embalmed. Racially, says Baldwin, the Englishman was produced by combining the impulsive Celt and the reflective Saxon. The amalgam resulted in men who were half superstitious, half realistic. The superstitious half became concerned with ethical values, the realistic half with how to get ahead. Says Baldwin: ". . . Sound common sense taught him that in a practical world, while there might be some good, there must also be considerable evil and brutality; therefore God must agree to wink at a reasonable modicum of wickedness. Wars and a minimum of chicanery must be permitted, though the party of the second part agreed...
...makes money. In his highceilinged, mirrored French salon, the average sale is "over $50" and the volume runs from 10-40 hats a day. His list of customers reads like an amalgam of the Social Register, Variety and Who's Who in Commerce & Industry*. In search of new ideas, he has made 40 European junkets, six trips to the Orient and four around the world...
...last fortnight. It was in evidence at El Alamein. It had been developing for a long time, ever since the inferior Allies had withdrawn on many fronts under Stuka harassment. It was an elaboration of German methods (which have long stressed the tactical air force) and an amalgam of U.S. and British methods...
...same advantages which prompted the Scot to join the Englishman in the successful amalgam, which with Wales, became the United Kingdom, do not exist so far as the Korean and the Jap are concerned...