Word: amalgamation
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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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...